Shawn Gordon writes

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From: Shawn Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 7:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: Back to space?


My friend Dennis Powell is the one that wrote and broke this story, he
actually told me about it back in September and the dates they had been
considering for announcing it were the anniversary of Kittyhawk, the
state
of the union and the anniversary of the last shuttle disaster, but there
was also consideration about the new Mars probes and how successful they
were.  It has nothing to do with the election year.  Bush 41 also wanted
to
do this.  Personally I love the idea.  Think about it, Mars is the only
planet in the solar system where we can actually land and walk around,
and
it happens to be the closest as well, to me that is just exciting as
hell.
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Actually Venus is almost twice as close (25.9 million miles) to Earth as
Mars (48.9 million miles) is.  However nobody's gonna be walking arounds
it's surface anytime soon.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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