We are the Martians
Why we've never lost our enthusiasm for space travel
Posted: August 30, 2009 at 4:34 a.m.
It was exactly 10 years ago, 1999, that the heat of a rocket ship on its way to Mars turned the dark Ohio winter into summer. The First Expedition landed men on Mars but it would be three expeditions later before the men of Earth would fully inhabit the red planet and make it their own.
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