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One Way Ticket To Mars

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The One Way Plan Is Going to Mars

James McLean asked you to imagine nightly broadcasts from the Mars base, peering with an astronaut over the edge of a crater five times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We have front row seats to the greatest and coolest Hail Mary pass in the history of humankind. One man, one way McLean says, fulfills the bold and inspiring NASA of his youth. But he can feel it, and Mars slipping away.

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