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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by frakturfreund on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @02:50PM (#8689393)
The NASA went to the moon because the russians wanted to do it. Today's space exploration is shaped by cooperation, but sometimes a little bit of competition is needed to achive great thinks.

This is why i'm really hoping for the chinese to announce a manned mission to mars. It's the red planet afterall ;), and this could be a modern sputnik shock for the NASA.

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by drjesusphd on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @04:42PM (#8690131)
Sputnik had military implications. Going to Mars doesn't.
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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by frakturfreund on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @07:42PM (#8691150)
That’s a valid point. But Sputnik had also a component of harmed pride (›most advanced nation‹); at least this should be reproducible.
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