Europe Moves Ahead on Mars Probe as NASA Targets Moon
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Credit: ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN (G. NEUKUM)
Robotic missions to Mars promise to provide a space-exploration second front as humans prepare to return to the Moon in the decade ahead. While NASA concentrates on building the human-rated Ares launch vehicles along with the Orion crew carriers and upper stages and landers needed to put four human...
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