Private spaceflight company SpaceX yesterday announced an ambitious plan to send a large unmanned probe to Mars.
The mission, called Red Dragon, would arrive in Martian orbit in late 2018, and then land to conduct scientific research on the planet’s surface. Should it be successful, this mission would be not only the first privately funded mission to Mars, but also the largest payload every taken to the planet to-date. In order to…
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