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Congress is Working Hard to Ground NASA’s Mars Mission
Budget earmarks are eating away at funding for advanced projects. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in space exploration, in large part thanks to the idea of going to Mars. But a damning new report by Ars Technica reveals that legislators who don’t share that excitement have been working to defund NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, a program partly tasked with developing the technology needed to get to the Red Planet.
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Of course! There's no money for big corps in space exploration.
Well yeah, at the end of the article it talks about the senator in control of their budget funding projects for his people and not for things NASA wants.