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To: anymouse

There are Russian robots on Mars??


26 posted on 09/08/2007 1:00:42 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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On to Mars ping!


28 posted on 09/08/2007 1:11:39 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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To: tet68
There are Russian robots on Mars??

Not funtioning ones. But they did get there first.

The overview of the Russian launches toward Mars

May 28, 1971 Mars-3 Mars orbiter/lander Orbited Mars; Lander failed upon landing

Aug. 5, 1973 Mars-6 Mars flyby/landing UR-500 Flew by Mars, landed capsule

Numerous later Mars missions planned by the Russians never quite got the funding they needed to fly their proven hardware. Their whole mission budgets were fractions of what NASA spends annually on planetary projects.

29 posted on 09/09/2007 12:59:27 AM PDT by anymouse
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