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Destination Mars by Rod Pyle has an admirable goal: to convince readers that Mars exploration is worth investment. If only it weren’t so boring
NASA’S Mars programme is in crisis. The US agency’s proposed budget for 2013 slashed funds for planetary science, forcing it to pull out of a mission with Europe to send a rover to the Red Planet in 2018.
In an atmosphere of barely suppressed panic about the future of the US programme, Destination…
