Wednesday, May 04, 2005
News From Space
We may get a better look at Mars than ever before.
A radar on the Mars Express spacecraft which will look for water and ice under the Red Planet is due to be deployed after a delay of over a year.So, if there is a year delay in an unmanned martian probe deploying a radar -- how long do you think it will be before this happens?
The future of human space transportation, not only into Earth orbit, but also back to the moon and on to Mars, kick-started this week as NASA received contractor proposals for the Crew Exploration Vehicle.It may have "kick-started" but I bet it takes a loooooong time to warm up.