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  20,000 Indians apply for Mars trip

  India | Dec 12, 2013, 11:54 AM IST

  New Delhi: Over 2 lakh people, including more than 20,000 Indians, have applied for an ambitious private mission that will send four men and women on a one-way trip to Mars in 2023 to establish

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  Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip

  World | May 31, 2013, 11:19 AM IST

  Los Angeles, May 31: Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported