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\n\nYou\u2019re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you\u2019re told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you\u2019ll ever take. It features a newly christened electric propulsion engine which was in the late stages of testing during the first three missions. The mission starts and the spacecraft travels at a crawl, and you wonder if it\u2019s broken. A week goes by and you\u2019re now traveling at more than 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) per hour, and your mind is blown as to how fast you\u2019re going, how quickly that happened, and that this mission might be more awesome than you thought.\n\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\nPour en savoir plus :New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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