The Senate just lobbed a tactical nuke at NASA’s Mars Sample Return program

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From Ars Technica:
"The US Senate on Thursday slashed the budget for NASA's ambitious mission to return soil and rock samples from Mars' surface."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/t ... n-program/

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From SpaceNews.com:
"House and Senate appropriators cut NASA’s budget"

https://spacenews.com/house-and-senate- ... as-budget/

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[helicon]

Tough. The effort to trim the "fat" continues.

[Ylem]

I would love to see humans on the Moon again, and even Mars, but not at the expense of the science missions.

I know that opinion is not a popular one, but I am afraid all those probes to the moons of the ice giants will eventually be cancelled so a few humans can repeat what we already did over 50 years ago.