Colin Pillinger has been hard at work getting the Beagle 2 project under way. Part of the European Space Agency鈥檚 Mars Express Mission, it will be launched in June this year, landing on Mars in late December. He took time off to review Albert Harrison鈥檚 Spacefaring: The human dimension (University of California Press, 拢13.95/$19.95) for New Scientist, and pronounced it 鈥渇ascinating鈥. 鈥淭his is a book that could broaden your horizons in the widest possible sense.鈥
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