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thenewgreen  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Questions about Nasa's 'impossible' space drive answered

An 8 month round trip with a 70 day stay on Mars!

I think you may have been wrong mk. Robots have not closed the window on space exploration

You wrote:

    I have long expected that I would see people step foot on the red planet during my lifetime. As I am in my mid-thirties, I never considered that this was unlikely. However, while following the exploits Spirit and Opportunity, this question came to me: Have robots permanently become the most attractive option for space exploration?

Have your views on this changed? Pretty exciting stuff!!