Scientists to Simulate Voyage to Mars

July 11, 2007 By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- It's a mission to Mars - without leaving Moscow. Russian scientists have finished fashioning a crucial section of a mock spacecraft that will simulate a voyage to the Red Planet, an official at the Moscow institute leading the project said Wednesday.


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