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| Farming on Mars: NASA Ponders Food for mid-2030s Manned Mission |
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05/10/13 |
| The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers. Growing food on Mars might be one of the most vital, challenging and labor-intensive tasks at hand, experts say. A report from the Humans 2 Mars conference in Washington D.C. |
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| Scheduling the Unknown |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/16/11 |
| How can the exploration of a Canadian lake, using deep-water submersibles, help NASA plan for the human exploration of Mars? |
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| Radiation No Concern for Space Crops? |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/03/11 |
| Flax seeds can grow in radioactive soil near the contaminated site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident without much change to their proteins, experiments show. This study may point the way to growing crops in space, on the Moon, or on Mars. |
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| Can We Grow Crops on Other Planets? |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/25/10 |
| A new study suggests that the surfaces of Mars, Venus and the Moon could be suitable for farming, moving one step closer to the next phase in space exploration: colonizing other planets. |
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| Synthetic Life Could Aid Space Exploration |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/23/10 |
| When packing for a manned mission to Mars or the Moon, the best thing to bring may not be food or fuel, but specially-designed organisms that can create those things for you. |
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| How Microbes Could Help Colonize Mars |
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09/09/10 |
| Tiny rock-eating microbes could mine precious extraterrestrial resources from Mars and pave the way for the first human colonists, but would take much longer to help transform the red planet via terraforming. |
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| Greening the Moon and Mars |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/29/10 |
| Future missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils. |
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| More Money, and a New Path to the Stars |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/02/10 |
| The Obama Administration plans to cancel NASA´s Constellation program that was to take American astronauts back to the Moon. Instead, NASA will oversee a competition among commercial space developers to come up with the technology to reach the stars. |
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| Planning Our Phases on the Moon |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
01/07/10 |
| As space agencies around the world gear up for a return of humans to the Moon, researchers are beginning to outline important scientific priorities. A new study at an impact crater in Canada is helping mission planners develop the most effective methods for exploring the lunar surface. |
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