Both Larry Klaes and Google mentioned the Discovery Channel's "Race to Mars," planed for debut in the fall of 2007, so I think I should mention it to you as well.

Will be interesting to see where we are come 2030.
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"Race to Mars" is set in the near future — 2030, to be exact — with China surging ahead of the United States and other nations in Mars exploration.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743183/
The Discovery Channel's "Race to Mars," shown here during filming in Canada, tells the story of a Mars mission in a three-hour miniseries set to air in the autumn of 2007.
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Hope they do a good job.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Check out both links - LRK -
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Google Alert for: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Report of the NASA Advisory Council Planetary Science Subcommittee Space Ref - USA http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=20590
... be planned for the scientific analysis of data to be obtained by ongoing and future lunar missions, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and missions by ...


Race the red planet: Production begins on Mars mission mini-series USA Today - USA http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-05-11-mars-mini-series_x.htm?POE=TECISVA
... human spaceflight successes and lofty space station and lunar plans—also ... A new Martian satellite – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – arrived in orbit ...


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Race to Mars, the Miniseries - Passed by Larry Klaes - LRK -
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"Race to Mars", a 3-hour miniseries on The Discovery Channel about a manned mission to the Red Planet in the year 2030. Apparently the US and a few other nations were spurred on by China's space ambitions. The series comes out in 2007.

Read more here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743183/
Quotes of note:

The $18.1 million ($20 million Canadian) production — which covers "Race to Mars," an added one-hour faux-documentary retrospective by the flight’s “astronauts,” plus "Mars Rising" and the Web site — is being billed by Discovery Channel as the most expensive science television project under way in 2006, though program managers are hoping its realism and detail will prove worthwhile. More than two years were spent in preparation for filming, including meetings with Mars and spaceflight experts, Lewis said.

“One of the important goals, frankly, for us was to see if we could start to generate public interest, public excitement about human exploration of space again,” Lewis said. “It’s obviously something that really hasn’t fired people’s imaginations for a long time. … Our feeling is people are willing to be inspired again.”

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Should be worth a smile. :-)
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http://www.bobpark.org/
>Subject: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday May 12, 2006
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:21:46 -0400
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>WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 12 May 06 Washington, DC

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3. SPACE: THE ONLY THING IN NASA THAT STILL GOES UP IS THE COST.
Michael Griffin told his science advisory committee this week that he could not keep the commitment he made a year ago not to shift money from science to human space flight. I wasn't on the committee, but I tried to imagine how it might have gone if I had been. MG: The problem is the ISS. RP: What problem? MG: We have to finish it by 2010. RP: Why is that a problem? MG: Because the shuttle doesn't work. RP: If we fix the shuttle and finish the ISS, what do we do next? MG: We drop the ISS in the ocean. RP: Why don't we do that now? MG: Because we must honor our commitment to our ISS partners first. RP: But what about your commitment to space science? MG: That will have to wait until we get back from Mars. RP: We're going to Mars? MG: When we get back from the moon. RP: We're going to the moon? MG: Just as soon as we build a new spacecraft. RP: What's holding that up? MG: The problem is the ISS.
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http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/bob.html
Robert L. Park is a professor of physics and former chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. He divides his time between the University and the Washington, DC office of the American Physical Society, which he opened in 1982. Author of more than a hundred technical papers on the structure and properties of single-crystal surfaces, Professor Park now devotes himself to helping the public distinguish genuine scientific advances from foolish and fraudulent claims. A frequent guest on news programs, he posts a provocative and widely-read weekly column on the internet, and is the author of Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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