Europeans Plan to Send Astronauts to Mars
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
European scientists said Tuesday that they planned to send astronauts to Mars within 30 years.
Like President Bush’s proposed mission to Mars, the outline put forward by the European Space Agency involves a “stepping stone” approach that includes robotic missions and sending humans to the moon first.
The European Space Agency has planned two flagship missions to Mars: ExoMars would land a rover on the planet in 2009, and Mars Sample Return would bring back a sample of the Martian surface in 2011 to 2014.
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