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  <title><![CDATA[Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>A recent announcement by SpaceX heading to Mars in 2018 highlights work done by researchers in SSDL; The feasability of such a mission is critiqued in the following article, "<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/spacex-has-already-demonstrated-its-key-mars-landing-tech-with-the-falcon-9/">Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know.</a>"</p><p>The following is an excerpt from the&nbsp;Ars Technica article:</p><blockquote><p>Among those&nbsp;eagerly&nbsp;watching the flight tests was Bobby Braun, an aerospace engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology, who has led&nbsp;a joint research effort with SpaceX and NASA to study supersonic retro-propulsion. "I&nbsp;have access to all of that data, and I’ll tell you that it's worked like a charm every time," he told Ars. "The stability was manageable, and while there are still some issues, there are no showstoppers."</p></blockquote><p>The full article can be found <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/spacex-has-already-demonstrated-its-key-mars-landing-tech-with-the-falcon-9/">here</a>.</p>]]></body>
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