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The idea of sending an expedition to Mars is not new. It was part of a long term space programme produced by President Nixon's space task group in the heady days of enthusiasm for manned space exploration which led to the first triumphant moon landing.
Archaelogists of the future may well puzzle over a derelict site in Nevada called Jackass Flats and surrounded by barren mountains, for it was there that NASA and the US Atomic Energy Commission set up the Nuclear Rocket Development Station (NRDS) and ran a series of tests, which were expected to lead to the first flight ready nuclear rocket engines. |
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