It also stressed the need to return samples from Mars to Earth, so they could be fully analyzed by multiple scientists.
At NASA, Hubbard's goals included understanding Mars as a system, looking for potentially habitable environments, examining whether the planet was habitable in the past and preparing to return samples from Mars to Earth.
There is no appetite to return to the moon, let alone push on to Mars, El Dorado of space exploration.
Earlier this year, NASA pulled out of an ambitious, joint U.S.-European effort to land a next-generation rover on Mars and eventually return some samples to Earth.
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Obama proposed cutting the NASA budget and delaying the timetable for our return to the moon and the Mars mission.
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The George W. Bush-era Constellation project, for instance (later cancelled by Mr Obama), was supposedly going to be a return mission to the moon followed by a trip to Mars.
Constellation would have developed a heavy lift launch vehicle, crew capsule, and other technology needed to return astronauts to the Moon, and then eventually carry them on to Mars.
No return trip to the Moon, no ultimate destination of Mars.
President Bush's plans for a return to the moon in 2020, with a trip to Mars to follow, were all well and good, but now NASA has finally fleshed out the details of the moon visits, and it seems a permanent international moon base is in the cards.
Mars said it receives a 4-to-1 return on investment for its Nascar sponsorship.
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Perhaps the most impressive statistic produced by NASCAR (and measured by Mars, Inc. tracking data) is that Mars, Inc. receives an impressive 4-to-1 return on investment from their sponsorship in NASCAR.
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Professor Longuski discovered that the safest route to take would be one that permitted a quick return trip, via Venus, in case of an accident that forced the Mars landing to be aborted.
Send a bunch of small rovers to look around different spots of Mars to find the best samples and then design a system to collect and return those rocks.
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