Dutch Foundation Invests In Mars Colony

Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington) December 16, 2013
Credit: Mars One
A Dutch non-profit foundation that hopes to start colonizing Mars in 2025 has hired Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technologies Ltd. to run concept studies of unmanned precursor spacecraft that could fly as early as 2018. If the youthful Mars One organization succeeds in the...

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