Odyssey and MER Budgets Cut |
Odyssey and MER Budgets Cut |
Mar 24 2008, 09:11 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 12-March 08 Member No.: 4062 |
Just found out today at a MER all-hands meeting that both MER and Odyssey will each be suffering an immediate $4 million budget cut to help defray the cost of MSL. Read more here: http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/200...rs-budget-cuts/
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Mar 25 2008, 06:00 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 18-January 07 Member No.: 1622 |
The directive was rescinded an hour ago - there will be no shutdown of either Rover. Last weeks letter was removed from the table.
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_...OlHz0gApw_737YB |
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Mar 25 2008, 06:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
If you go to Google news and search for "Mars rover" you get 265 hits as a result of this cancellation/noncancellation.
If you look at the same thing a month ago, you see a trickle, most of which were extremely peripheral in so far as the Mars rovers actually being the topic. Mission accomplished. Mars exploration and space exploration is in the news, and the tightness of their funding is the headline. That's the sound that this gunfire was intended to create. There was no actual target for the bullet. |
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