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"On arrival at Mars, ExoMars would be equipped to scout about for the leftover traces of long-gone life or still thriving biology on the far-away world. Furthermore, the ESA robot is to help identify potential peril for a future humans-to-Mars mission – now resident on NASA planning charts as the year <b>2030</b>."<br /><br /><br /><br />2030? Is that the offical stance now?<br />Anybody can tell that's a BS date, they pushed it so far into the future because they have no planes drawn up for it and they don't want to have to worry about it.<br />with the current administrator changeover, NASA is in total disarray, its long term objectives unclear, and the short term goals centered around the remainder of the Space Shuttle program-i.e. not screwing up again.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>