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How to Put a Human on Mars

How would a first human mission to Mars actually work were we to try to send a crew there using existing technologies? A team of scientists from Imperial College London takes on the challenge of designing the crafts which would be needed to get them down on the Red Planet and safely back to Earth.

30 minutes

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Sun 5 Jan 2014 21:30GMT

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