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After Math: Fly me to the Moon (and then on to Mars)

Let me play among the stars
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Andrew Tarantola
Andrew Tarantola|@terrortola|October 1, 2017 11:00 AM

This was a stellar week for space exploration. Elon Musk showed off a new rocket and announced plans to colonize Mars by 2022. Lockheed Martin showed of its prototype all-in-one rocket-spacecraft design. And the US and Russia agreed to go live on the moon together -- because science, of course. Numbers because how else are you going to calculate gravitational exit velocity?

Gallery: After Math: October 1st, 2017 | 7 Photos

  • 150 tons
  • 7 years
  • 1 hour
  • 1.9 million square feet
  • 8 years
  • 1,000 days
  • 11,500
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After Math: Fly me to the Moon (and then on to Mars)