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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: ExoMars

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Will be launched in 2009 by ESA (Shaun...another must-wait! <frown>  Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus?!  Come again??).  Looks like 2009 will be a busy year in some respects.

Best of luck to ESA throughout the entire mission (preplanning and etc.).

"The European Space Agency has announced its call for proposals for ExoMars, the first Flagship mission in the agency's Aurora program.

The Aurora program's agenda includes dispatching robotic and human space missions to bodies elsewhere in the solar system. In particular, the effort puts at high premium those celestial objects that hold promise for traces of life..."

You go, ESA! 

--Cindy 

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Byron

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From: Florida, USA

Registered: 2002-05-16

Posts: 844

Re: ExoMars

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*I checked with "Search" to be sure this hadn't been posted before; Search yielded up no results, so...

Will be launched in 2009 by ESA (Shaun...another must-wait! <frown>  Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus?!  Come again??).  Looks like 2009 will be a busy year in some respects.

Best of luck to ESA throughout the entire mission (preplanning and etc.).

"The European Space Agency has announced its call for proposals for ExoMars, the first Flagship mission in the agency's Aurora program.

The Aurora program's agenda includes dispatching robotic and human space missions to bodies elsewhere in the solar system. In particular, the effort puts at high premium those celestial objects that hold promise for traces of life..."

You go, ESA! 

--Cindy 

It's about time that NASA started getting some real competition...lol 

Looks like we're going to have a lot to look foward to before the end of this decade...

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