Random Bits of Space

Will Russia and China succeed in their quest to get to Mars?

India is looking to extend its current lunar mission, to land a probe on the Moon in 2012 and send a probe to Mars in 2013...and to land a person (?) on the Moon in 2020.

Five years on Mars!...Spirit has been on Mars for five years; Opportunity is coming up on the same anniversary. Five years is pretty good for a ninety-day mission!