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Curiosity opportunity and spirit
The main difference is that a manned Mars mission is a great deal longer.
The ISS (International Space Station). The Hubble Telescope. Voyager 1 and 2. The various mars rovers (which have discovered frozen water on Mars). The Space Shuttle Program.
How long it takes a spacecraft to reach Mars depends on the changing distances between Mars and Earth as they orbit the sun, and other factors. Trips are usually planned for when Mars will be closest to Earth; the shortest is about three months. None of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet are capable of making the trip, and the remaining shuttles are due to be retired.
mars
No space shuttle has ever been on a mission to Mars.
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There has never been a space shuttle mission to Mars. The space shuttle is not designed for planetary trips.
There was no space shuttle that landed on mars but there were unmanned rockets that went to mars that sent probes
Curiosity opportunity and spirit
The Mars rover
No space has ever gone to mars. It would around 9 months to get there. A space probe has been sent to Mars and it was called Pathfinder.
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No - and it never will. It was not designed to go to Mars.
The first probe to land on Mars was called, the Hubble space craft.
Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle may well take photos of Mars as personal souvenirsif they have time, but the photos would have very little scientific value.The Space Shuttle operates at about 0.0005 percent of the smallest possible distance between Earthand Mars. The Shuttle astronauts don't get appreciably closer to Mars than you do in your kitchen.If additional imaging of Mars is required, it might be acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope, or bythe two rovers currently operating on the surface of Mars.
There is no colony on Mars and no space shuttle will be traveling to Mars. There is a robotic probe on Mars. No human being has ever been there. At the present time (2013) it is impossible to say if any human being ever will go there. Certainly some people would liketo go there. But no trips are scheduled.