"Some of the astronauts we're recruiting today will be pioneers in our missions to make the first footprints on the surface of Mars," NASA chief Charlie Bolden said during a briefing today, according to Space.com.
"We have no black thoughts and full confidence in our technology," Shkaplerov told journalists at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the AP reported.
A mosaic image of asteroid Eros at it's north pole, taken by the robotic NEAR Shoemaker space probe on February 14, 2000 immediately after the spacecraft's insertion into orbit.
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A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, which will give scientists a chance to study it without having to spend time and money by launching a probe, Reuters reported.
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