Scientists Say NASA Cutting Missions to Mars

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON February 10, 2012 (AP)

Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. And NASA's former science chief is calling it irrational.
With limited money for science and an over-budget new space telescope, the space agency essentially had to make a choice in where it wanted to explore: the neighboring planet or the far-off cosmos.
Mars lost.

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