Letter to the Editor: Sending a buggy to Mars. Have we gone bonkers?

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launching, carrying the Perseverance rover. Picture: NASA/Joel Kowsky/PA Wire
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launching, carrying the Perseverance rover. Picture: NASA/Joel Kowsky/PA Wire
Fri, 31 Jul, 2020 - 00:00

So we've Sent a Car Buggy to Mars this week on the back of a rocket and still there's no cure for Covid 19 on the horizon. 

I pose the simple apparently obvious question - Are Humans gone totally Bonkers, imagine sending a Rover to Mars during a Global Pandemic Plague. Is the vehicle Covid Free? Is it?

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