US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission(scientificamerican.com)

US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-budget-calls-for-stranding-nasas-mars-samples-on-the-red-planet/

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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.

[deleted]anno scorso