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SUBJECT: PLANNING MISSION TO RED PLANET FILE: UFO3348
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Date: 10-26-92 22:20
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MARS A MULTINATIONAL TARGET from the Associated Press
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Chinese-Russian team planning mission to red planet
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BEIJING - Chinese and Russian scientists are preparing for a joint
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mission to explore Mars and look for signs of life, an official
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report said Sunday.
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For the past two years, scientists from the Chinese Academy of
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Sciences have been working with the Russian Academy of Sciences
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researching and making high-altitude soundine balloons for detect-
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ing cosmic rays and studying space environment, the official Xinhua
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News Agency reported.
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Yuri Sergeevich Osipov, the president of the Russian academy,
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was quoted as saying they were preparing to launch a spacecraft in
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1994 that will orbit Mars and collect data. A second launch in 1996
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will land on the planet to explore its climate and geology and
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search for signs of life.
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The project has been dubbed Mars-96. France, Italy and the
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United States also are working on the project, but Osipov did not
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give details of their work.
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The Soviet Union launched two Mars-bound spacecraft in 1988;
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but both failed to reach the planet, the report said.
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China's space technology has focused on satellite launches.
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It has said it would launch an unmanned spacecraft by the year
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2000, but few details of those plans have been reported.
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