这是与罗伯特·朱柏林来往的少量信件及美国“火星协会”提供的几张清晰大图。作为洛克希德·马丁公司的资深工程师，能够回信出乎意外。毕竟洛马是敏感部门，王伟撞下的战斗机好像就是他们造的。处于这种中美军事关系敏感时期，军事部门人员接受中国媒体的提问是需要勇气的。

逐条回应：
Dear Mr.Robert:
     We have read the article you post on the website of Mars Society,the "Four-Month Mars Mission" is really a great idea.This info also make the readers from china exiciting.Now we wanna to ask you several questions on this case,thank you for your kindly help!
     1.Do volunteers from China have chances to join your mission?
        yes. we are open to volunteers from all nations.
       
     2.Why did your chose Devon Island as your experiment place?
       It is a polar desert with a meteor crater that has created Mars like geology. It is uninhabited and unvegetated. It is as cold as Mars. all told, it is one of the most Mars like places on Earth.Devon is on Earth, so it has Earth's gravity and Earth's atmosphere. But it is close to Mars as you can get while staying on Earth. It is thus the ideal place to practice for Mars.

     3.If it's possible for the volunteers of this mission become real astronauts after the experiment?
        Yes, but that is up to the space agencies of the different countries to decide.
Will they land on Mars some day in the future?
    
     4.How soon do you think human can land on Mars?
         We can be there in ten years, if we decide to do so. From a technological point of view, we are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to send men to the Moon in 1961. and we were there 8 years later.

     5.Does it expensive to do such an experiment?
       the mission will cost the Mars Society $100,000.

     6.How can your send the equipments to Devon Island?
       We fly there using Twin Otter small airplanes out of Resolute Bay.I hope this helps. I have attached some photos showing Mars Society operations on Devon Island that you can use with your article.
 
Regards,
Robert Zubrin











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