Man Must Travel to Mars, Garn and Astronauts Say

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Human beings have yet to walk on Mars' face, and it isn't for lack of smarts.

"It is not the technology to go to Mars or other planets or back to the moon," former Utah senator and space traveler Jake Garn said Saturday. "The problem is funding. I am convinced we could be on Mars now, be there sometime from 2005-2010, if the funding had been approved by Congress."

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Man Must Travel to Mars, Garn and Astronauts Say

Garn and about a half-dozen astronauts and cosmonauts are in the middle of a five-day meeting in Salt Lake City to prepare for the Association of Space Explorers' annual Planetary Congress, to be held here in October.

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