Lack of funds for technology 'could undermine' Mars mission science
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Space science. Rising costs could delay NASA's next mission to Mars and future launches.
Faced with a dramatically higher price tag, NASA managers will decide next month whether to postpone the launch of a sophisticated Mars rover for 2 years. Such a delay in the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) would mark a signif icant setback to the Mars research program, which has sent a new spacecraft to the planet every other year for a decade. Planetary scientists also worry that pushing back t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/382481a0