The World - News from Nov. 30, 1988
The Soviet Union may decide to push back a target date for launching the first in a series of planned missions to Mars, a Soviet space official said. Genrich A. Avanesov, an official of the Space Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said some scientists believe it would be worth waiting a couple of years past the 1994 target date to incorporate improved technology. “Technically we do have the possibility to send a mission by 1994 with a Martian (robotic) rover, but we’re not sure it’s worth doing,” Avanesov said in Washington after a presentation on space automation and robotics. He emphasized that no official decision has been made.
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