Russian Claims Lead in New Space Race

Winnipeg Free Press (January 09, 2008)

Author: Edwards, Steven
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"It is prestigious and real and it is Russia's priority to land a cosmonaut on Mars," he said.

"They have tremendous and proven capability in space and, if they really want to, I'm not at all saying they couldn't put people on Mars by 2025," Chris Hadfield, former Canadian astronaut who now heads Space Station Operations, said from Houston.

Under a plan backed by [George W. Bush], NASA aims at building an "outpost" on the moon over five years beginning in 2019 that would be permanently manned. From there, sights would be set on Mars.

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Russian Claims Lead in New Space Race

Can land on Mars first, academic says

By Steven Edwards

UNITED NATIONS -- In an echo of the 1960s space race, one of Russia's lea...



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