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Focus of Mars Exploration Shifts Away from Humans

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According to NASA's web site, Curiosity is still on course to reach Mars Sunday night. When it bursts through the atmosphere, a bunch of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will be ready to burst into joyous applause, presuming everything goes well. Curiosity is a complicated, expensive project, although not quite as complicated and expensive as trying to land humans on the red planet.

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