From: Jeff Taylor (jeff@ultraviolet.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 1999 - 18:00:25 MDT
Do you know if they launched a probe to Mars recently? If I remember
correctly it would have been in the last 9 months.
jeff
-- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." -Albert Einstein ---------- >From: GBurch1@aol.com >To: extropians@extropy.com >Subject: Mars / Japan >Date: Sun, Apr 4, 1999, 5:12 PM > > In a message dated 99-04-04 19:44:38 EDT, jeff@ultraviolet.com (Jeff Taylor) > wrote: > >> btw: on another point of interest, relating to Mars colonies, someone said >> they'd heard Japan announced they are entering the space race and they >> recently sent a probe to Mars AND announced they are planning a manned mars >> mission. Can anyone confirm or deny this based on some more legitimate >> source? > > I follow developments in space technology as an interested layman and can > tell you this sounds like bunk. The Japanese do have an active, if > relatively small space program, but they don't have the lifting capacity to > do anything like a manned Mars mission -- especially in the midst of a > serious economic recession. > > Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com> > Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide > http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1 > "Civilization is protest against nature; > progress requires us to take control of evolution." > -- Thomas Huxley >
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