A new space race? To put a man on Mars, US, Europe, and China face a stark choice: cooperate or go solo.(FEATURES)(PLANET) From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: April 1, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

From the time Sputnik first orbited Earth in 1957 to the fall of the Soviet Union 34 years later, Western cooperation in manned spaceflight was cemented by a common ideology and a common foe. Its capstone was the International Space Station.

But today, the United States and Europe, which built the space station, have reached a crossroads as they search for ways to put astronauts on Mars. On...

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