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Russia to launch robots towards Mars · 2007-04-14 17:32
Russia will send three pilotless expeditions to Mars between 2009 and 2015, Kommersant informed.
“Fobos-Grunt project's space vehicle will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2009 towards Mars' moon,” Georgy Polishchuk, Chief Designer and Director General of R&D Imeni Lavochkina, said.
“Another one, that will fly around the Red Planet, will be launched in 2012.”
“The task of the third expedition, in about 3 years after the second, is purely practical: landing onto Mars' surface and exploration by means of a mars rover," Polishchuk said.
He added that “robots, and not humans, piloted and pilot the way to space for mankind.”
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