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Dec 3 2008, 08:58 PM
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/dec/H...MSL_Update.html
From the wording of this announcement, MSL is clearly still on, which is a good thing. We'll have to wait and see. Doug |
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Dec 5 2008, 09:28 AM
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If I'm interpreting Ed Weiler correctly, NASA and ESA working jointly on a 2016 ExoMars rover would not only greatly help ESA's funding problems, but would save NASA a tremendous amount of money in not sending its own Mars rover in 2016. That could really help NASA pay back money it will "borrow" from the Mars program to pay for the MSL delay.
A little aside: I'm delighted that there will now be two extra years of MRO (especially HiRISE) returning maximum science data from Mars. I didn't want it to happen this way, but you might as well be an opportunist about such things. |
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