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Scientific American

March 1, 2000

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To Mars by Way of Its Moons

Phobos and Deimos would make ideal staging areas

By S. Fred Singer

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S. FRED SINGER is director of the Science and Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Va., and professor at George Mason University. A pioneer in the use of rockets (captured German V-2s) to investigate the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space, he was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center. He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.

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