Abstract
The late 1980s have been a time in which the future of the space program is a topic of active debate in both of the major spacefaring nations, the United States and the Soviet Union. The spirit of glasnost has pervaded the Soviet space program, which has been very open to American participation in a variety of different roles. The Soviets have been very open regarding their short-range plans and have widely discussed the possibility of sending human beings to Mars, possibly in an expedition conducted jointly with the United States.1 There seems to be a consensus in the Soviet Union that a trip to Mars is the next major step.
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Irwin Goodwin, “Beyond INF Treaty, Summiteers Stumble Over Mars Trip and Basic Science,” Physics Today (July 1988), pp. 47-50.
John S. Lewis and Ruth A. Lewis, Space Resources: Breaking the Bonds of Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), p. 245.
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Shipman, H.L. (1989). Where Do We Go From Here?. In: Humans in Space. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6104-4_12
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