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...Mars Exploration Rover Mission - NASA official, user-friendly mission site, with photos, explainers and sections for kids and students...
...unmanned mission to Pluto, which would take about nine to 11 years for arrival, is back on the drawing board. It probably should've happened already, and it remains a possibility...
While the Spirit rover combs the surface of Mars looking for clues of past life, we're poring over the sharpest photos ever seen of the Red Planet. NASA's website has struggled to keep up with public demand, and the Mars mission is clearly a victory, especially considering the Columbia tragedy less than one year ago. Today we chat with TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger about what it all means...
...TIME.com: How much did the Spirit mission cost, and has it been worth it? Kluger: The cost is $850 million, and we won't know whether it was worth it until the science is returned. But we do know that it's possible to get a spacecraft bigger and more sophisticated than Pathfinder there. And don't forget the old axiom that says there's no such thing as a failed experiment, because failures teach you what doesn't work...
...Having a human onboard of course makes for a much more captivating mission. That's why I feel that even a trip to the moon, which we became nonchalant about as early as 1972, would bring back a sense of wonderment about space exploration. A large segment of the population has not seen a human walk on the moon. And getting a person anywhere close to Mars would be thrilling...