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Just deleted amadu and salame. Sorry to those who received spam, but I don't like deleting people's accounts until there is some independent confirmation that they are spammers - which this thread provided. Thank you all!

King of Mars? King of Mars?! I am no less than Emperor and Lord-Protector of Mars, and its surrounding bodies! 

Nah, I still have around twelve hours I reckon. It'll be online tomorrow, don't you fret! 

I've long thought that the reason NASA does well at robotic missions is because they're far less politicized than human missions, and also inevitably because they are much smaller scale. While missions like Galileo and the Global Surveyor are obviously still worth hundreds of millions at least, they pale into comparison with the manpower and money - and bureaucracy and politics - involved in the Shuttle and the ISS.

I'm useless, I know!    I have a free day tomorrow so I will definitely put them online - along with another article...

One post is quite enough for an advert, thank you. I've deleted the other duplicates.

D'oh! Sorry, I completely forgot. I'll put the next chapter online this afternoon, and don't hesitate to remind me any other week if I'm late! 

Moved thread to Intelligent Alien Life forum.

I'm astounded that in almost 2000 posts, there are only 20 separating Josh from Cindy...

Clark - my mistake, I misunderstood what you meant. While I think the idea of a Million Miles March (as in, getting a million people to march) would be great, I honestly don't think that it could happen in the near future; there just aren't that many people who believe in space exploration that fervently. It's one thing to get people to march for gun rights, abortion or civil rights, but entirely another thing to get them to march for something that will not directly impact them or their health.

But yeah, getting a lot of people for the next Shuttle launch would be great. As would co-ordinating a lot of simultaneous parties for, say, the first of the three Mars landings that'll be happening next year...

First of all, I'd like to apologise for the recent downtime on New Mars. The domain name registration for newmars.com expired sometime last week, which I missed, and we've spent a quick last few days adding another three years onto the registration. I'd like to reassure readers and members here that New Mars is not going away any time soon, and neither myself nor the Mars Society have any plans to abandon the website. In fact, now that I've managed to set up a new billing system, downtime should be kept to a very minimum.

Things that you'll be able to look forward to in the near future are the serialization of Robert Stockman's 'Mars Frontier' novel and a series of editorials by myself on the state of Mars exploration.