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Mars Needs Millionaires, British Astronomer Says
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 03:40 pm ET
07 July 2003

Future space exploration should be left to rich thrill seekers. That's the view of Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal and a Royal Society research professor at Cambridge University’s King’s College.

In the July/August issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Rees questions the case for sending people into space. As a scientist, he's against it....