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US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission (scientificamerican.com)
8 points by pmags 83 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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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