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To: Win Smith who wrote (427)	2/4/2003 3:28:25 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 603

China is planning to blast its first manned flight into orbit later this year. Well, I'll applaud whoever gets to Mars, though a US success would make it easier to understand the "famous first word". In any case I don't have any hope that Europe would lead a Mars mission. Here are two more NASA documents - only strategy papers, not concerned with the low realms of numbers but with some thoughts why robots are insufficient for many tasks: NASA HEDS Strategic Plan (PDF, 5.48 MB) (HEDS: Human Exploration and Development of Space) hq.nasa.gov NASA 2000 Strategic Plan (PDF, 3.1 MB) hq.nasa.gov