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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Courtesy: NASA/Rad Sinyak
08 Feb 2018
Taken from the February 2018 issue of Physics World

With ambitious plans being dreamed up to send astronauts to the red planet, what challenges would face them if they ever went – and what technology would they need? Stephen Ornes finds out

In most Hollywood movies, interplanetary travel seems fairly straightforward: hop on a spaceship, bl

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