NASA Administrator Mike Griffin recently announced that the agency would cut back somewhat on Mars exploration so it can focus the outer planets. The space agency hopes to launch a “flagship” mission to either Jupiter or Saturn while at the same time funding a Mars sample return mission at the end of the next decade.
The big question is: Can NASA afford it all? Taylor Dinerman explores this question in an essay in this week’s edition of The Space Review.
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