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From: jhart@agora.rain.com (Jim Hart)
Subject: Re: Distance to Mars
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Organization: Open Communications Forum
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 06:33:12 GMT
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strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com (john r strohm) writes:
>Putting a manned control station
>in Mars orbit is a third possible solution.

>That third solution, of course, is HIGHLY Politically Incorrect.  :-)

Make that highly *economically* incorrect. :-)   NASA quotes $400
billion to put 4 astronauts on Mars. 

Jim Hart
jhart@agora.rain.com
