MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Soviet Union had conceptual plans in the 1980s to send manned spacecraft to Mars in the 1990s, even though its program to land cosmonauts on the moon failed. The Mars mission would have required launching the spacecraft's components ...
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Keywords: The Soviet Union had conceptual plans in the 1980s to send manned spacecraft to Mars in the 1990s, even though its program to land cosmonauts on the moon failed. The Mars mission would have required launching the spacecraft's components into Earth orbit for assembly. The roundtrip journey to the Red Planet would have taken at least a year. Post-Soviet Russia cancelled the program due to its expense and questions regarding its feasability. Date: 1986 (Credit: Defense Intelligence Agency/Brian W. McMullin) The Soviet Union had conceptual plans in the 1980s to send manned spacecraft to Mars in the 1990s, even though its program to land cosmonauts on the moon failed. The Mars mission would have required launching the spacecraft's components into Earth orbit for assembly. The roundtrip journey to the Red Planet would have taken at least a year. Post-Soviet Russia cancelled the program due to its expense and questions regarding its feasability. Date: 1986 (Credit: Defense Intelligence Agency/Brian W. McMullin)
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