[FPSPACE] FW: Russian Mars mission

[Woods, Dave]

Dima has found another "gem" to pass along to readers of this forum.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dmitry Pieson [SMTP:dpieson@mail.ru]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 21, 2000 4:56 AM
> To:	'Woods, Dave'
> Subject:	Russian Mars mission
> 
> Dave,
> 
> could you please pass this to the FPSPACE list?
> 
> Thanks in advance -
> Dima
> 
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> 
> Yesterday Yuri Karash published in a NG-Nauka scientific attachment to the
> Nezavisimaya Gazeta a large article about would-be Russian-led manned Mars
> missions as proposed by Energia's Leonid Gorshkov. While the text itself
> is 
> in Russian, the accompaning picture should still be of interest for those 
> who do not read Russian. The URL is
> 
> http://science.ng.ru/policy/2000-12-20/1_mars.html
> 
> (please note: 
>   the 'gap' symbol after 1: should be /1_mars.html, not /1 mars.html ).
> 
> Although I am a convinced opponent of any Russia-led manned Mars projects
> for
> the time being, the article itself is still of interest. The illustration
> is
> of very poor resolution, so if anybody is interested, I may scan in the
> original from the paper edition and send it by e-mail.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dmitry Pieson
> dpieson@mail.ru