Labels: text | machine | tool | screenshot OCR: PERSPECTIVES AND PROJECTS Finally, in 1986, Andre Lebeau, the former DEIMOS PROJECT director of French and European space programs, MARS ONE PROJECT wrote in his book "L'espace en heritage" ("The Space Heritage"), "It is only too clear that the play of technical forces cannot continue ... in the way we see today, bound within the closed framework of the Earth's surface. On the time scale of human history, we can say that tomorrow these forces will lead either to stagnation or to catastrophe ... Space technology offers us our only hope of opening up new territories, a new dimension." Yesterday's projects, tomorrow's accomplishments? During the 1960s and 70s, Mars was the focus of numerous projects. Some were abandoned or suspended. But who can say whether these projects might be reactivated in the near or distant future? MARS BETAT