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Pierre Brisson

Pierre Brisson is the president and founding member of the Mars Society Switzerland. He is also a member of the management committee of the Planète Mars Association (France). An economist by training (University of Virginia, USA), he is a former corporate banker and a lifelong planetologist.

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The humans of tomorrow will live on Mars

This content was published on We should accept the challenge of putting humans on Mars because our technology is very close to making it possible, argues Pierre Brisson.

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