Houston, We Have Landed On Mars

August, 1997

a fanatic band of hippie scientists has sold nasa on a manned mission to the red planetMars is six months away. One hundred and eighty days. It's a journey 1000 times more distant from earth than anyone has ever undertaken before. But we could fly there in less time than it took Christopher Columbus to make his first trip to the New World and back, in less time than it takes to finish a baseball season.Aboard rockets from earth launched into an elliptical orbit around the sun, at speeds 20 times...

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