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Comment: Money (Score 1) 187

by here4fun on Sunday September 26, 2004 @04:36PM (#10356984) Attached to: Private Mars Mission Planned For 2009

How can a private group raise the money for a mission like this? I would think the cost would easily be in the hundreds of millions of dollars range, maybe the billion dollar range. What will they get back, what return? I am thinking government has to back them somehow for this to really happen.

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