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I just wonder, why SpaceX plans are not here. At least Elon Musk keeps talking about SpaceX's mission to Mars, the rockets to be ready in 2019 (in his calendar, which may mean 2021 AD :) Could someone please englight me why these plans don't appear here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.102.32.168 ( talk) 10:35, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Keep it out of active missions table, until it's actually begins it's primary mission. It's not on active mission ATM. Elk Salmon ( talk) 13:56, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
Could someone explain the color scheme for the timeline of past missions? It seems to vary between entries. WeatherMan142 ( talk) 06:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Currently the units given for budgets for missions is in billion USD, however there are a good number of missions several orders of magnitude below that level. Should we switch it to millions of USD? I also think we need consistency on the number of significant figures used. -- ERAGON ( talk) 15:32, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
The "Timeline" section is a duplication of the article List of missions to Mars. It makes this article extremely long, and is problematic to update both identical lists if unaware. I suggest we just delete it and show a link to List of missions to Mars. Rowan Forest ( talk) 18:42, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
The table in this section seems unnecessarily focused on one particularly bad stretch, and has the appearance of being cherry-picked specifically to make Mars exploration look less successful and/or more difficult than it actually has been. There have been 18 missions since 1999, 14 of which were successful, and eight of those are still operational. There were 28 missions prior to 1988, and twelve of those were fully or partially successful. And the Phobos 2 mission, which is in the table, was partially successful, not a failure: while the lander portions failed, the orbiter returned many images both of Mars and of Phobos. I don't think anyone is going to claim exploring Mars is easy, but this section makes it look harder than the actual historical record shows. The Rev Dr Sherwood Forrester ( talk) 17:30, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
The antecedent to the word "this" is unclear, and it seems there may be a lack of thought continuity in the paragraph since it's completely unclear how the benefits mentioned are anticipated to materialize. "This method will save lives on Earth, add potentially trillions of dollars to the world economy annually, and provide a stable colony on Mars." I don't know how to fix it. Can somebody help? I guess the intro paragraph is pretty much a mess. Tom Haws ( talk) 22:48, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
The table is limited to 2001 onwards. I'd opt for 1996 as a 0-measurement as start. 2001 is rather arbitrary and not a logical start. PS: a horizontal scrollable table starting with the year before the very first mission to include might even be better. Grifo ( talk) 11:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)