Slashdot | Russian Group Plans Manned Mars Mission By 2011

Slashdot | Russian Group Plans Manned Mars Mission By 2011: "'A group of Russian space experts on Friday announced an ambitious plan to send a six-man crew to Mars within a decade, a project it said would cost only $3.5 billion. Russian space officials dismissed the project as nonsense. They plan to have 6 people explore Mars for months before returning to Earth. The Mission would take 3 years, and would depend on fully equipped spacecraft containing its own garden, medical facilities etc.'"