[Candor7]

Deep space exploration is extra-solar system. And the article writer seems to think that deep space exploration is lunar and martian?

The only deep space explorer that earth currently has or will have for the next five hundred years is Ozzy Osbourne. And look what deep space did to him!

LOL.

DEEEEEEP SPAAAAAAAZE! Hardly.

They could simply celebrate by putting the whole ChiCom politbureau in orbit and leave them there.That would be progress.

[canoe drummer]

Deep space exploration is extra-solar system. And the article writer seems to think that deep space exploration is lunar and martian?

Probably a translation error (in some dictionaries and encyclopedias, deep space is indeed synonymous with outer space), the translator probably meant to say "outer space" as opposed to inner space (Shuttle range).

[TalonDJ]

Atually NASA uses 'Deep Space' to mean out of earth orbit and such. The Deep Space Array is used to communicate with Mars probes for example.

[jmcenanly]

The only deep space explorer that earth currently has or will have for the next five hundred years is Ozzy Osbourne. And look what deep space did to him! The Voyager spacecraft are presently drawing near to the edge of the solar system, and will then be our first deep space explorers