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US President Joe Biden says he hopes Congress will vote on his "Build Back Better" infrastructure plan as soon as this week. "Maybe it won't work, but I believe we'll see by the end of next week at home that it's passed." Biden said during a press conference for the G20 summit in Rome. SOUNDBITE from Joe Biden
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A team of 7 volunteer 'astronauts' will take part in a simulation of a two-week-long mission to the surfaces of the Moon and Mars near the town of Pila, Poland in a project called the Poland Mars Analogue Simulation 2017, or PMAS 2017. The volunteers will stay inside the simulated space module until August 13, spending the first three days in 'lunar mode' before switching to prepare for the red planet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk spoke at the 67th International Astronautical Congress, where he presented the Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS - his plan on how to send humans to Mars. Musk showed CAD models of the ITS spaceship-rocket hybrid and explained that the ITS is supposed to be able to carry up to 100 people to Mars per flight, with each flight expected to take 80 days. The first flights are slated to take place by the mid-2020s. The SpaceX founder estimates that in 40-100 years it would be possible to establish an independent colony on the Red Planet. Musk assessed that if 1 million people signed up for the flights, the tickets to Mars could be sold for around $200,000.
The Kremlin plans to build a permanent base on the surface of the moon by 2030, according to Russian state-run news agency TASS.
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