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The Voice of a Changing Region. Mars One By Jonathan Maberry.
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Mars One Trade Paperback Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! More books from this author: A technology that had girdled and transformed one world—Antarctica is the only continent without contrails regularly dissecting its sky—would begin afresh on a second. Right from the start, the idea stirred powerful emotions. At one point responsibility was divided between two research centers on opposite coasts. Now the baby is back in one piece.
Media high-fliers embark on a mission to Mars
Even with no further bureaucratic infighting, it will be a challenge. Launch in November makes the development schedule tight, the budget though not yet fixed will be low, and no one has ever done such a thing before. Success will be a triumphant 20 minutes of data. Failure will be a far-off, unheard crash.
Even if this particular invention never reaches Mars, or is postponed to some less historic date, the Kitty Hawk anniversary has already served to focus attention on the argument that someday, the exploration of Mars will require flight. With airplanes, they will be able to explore a world.
The idea is not new. Nearly half a century ago, Wernher von Braun described Mars landings using hypersonic gliders—Chesley Bonestell painted one sitting on the dusty Martian plain like a silver arrow. Von Braun might not have bothered, though, if he had known what we know now about the Martian atmosphere.