Rethink the Mars Program - SpaceNews
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NASA’s robotic Mars exploration program is in crisis. A recent review of the plan of its flagship Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission pegged its cost at $10 billion, a price tag that threatens to preclude funding any other exploration missions to the Red Planet for the next decade and a half.
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NASA Advised to Revamp Mars Plans
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Rethink the Mars Program - SpaceNews
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