US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission

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ungreased0675 · 6h ago

Did this program have a realistic possibility of actually returning those samples? I suspect it’s a money pit, because there was no urgency to deliver on this important scientific project before its budget was in jeopardy.

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US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission

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