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country occasion Online Zhuangao,: According to the Australian Daily Telegraph “reported on February 14, 2013 Budget in accordance with the U.S. President Barack Obama submitted to Congress, the United States will cancel the Mars exploration program, conducted jointly with the European. Some U.S. scientists worry that NASA suffered a “brain drain” for risk.
in accordance with the new Budget, the United States will cancel conducted jointly with the European Space Agency in 2016 and 2018, non-manned missions to Mars robot Exploration Program. The purpose of this program is to retrieve samples from Mars in the next 10 years, NASA Administrator Charles? Bolden (CharlesBolden) acknowledged that “tough choices” to cancel the agreement with Europe, but he vowed to rebuild the Mars program.
in the 2013 Budget, the Obama administration to NASA’s Mars Exploration Program funds from the original $ 587 million (about 3.7 billion yuan) reduced to $ 361 million (U.S. $ 2.27 billion yuan). Other large NASA project will continue to receive funding, such as James – Webb Space Telescope, is used to explore the asteroid heavy rocket.
NASA 2013 available budget of $ 17.7 billion (about 111.4 billion yuan), a decrease of 0.3% compared to 2012. Scott? Hubbard (ScottHubbard,), a Stanford University professor who served as NASA’s Mars program director, said: “This is the real tragedy of science, I personally think this is a national disgrace. We have in the past 10 years, the U.S. aerospace Bureau of the most successful program, but it is being abandoned. “
George Washington University – Space Policy, Professor Pascal? Hang (PascaleEhrenfreund) of science, which is sad.” full-time study of extraterrestrial life “Planetary Society” Bill? Chennai ( BillNye) said that the United States to cancel the Mars program will have devastating consequences. NASA employed the world on top of the Mars lander experts, if these experts are not things to do and then retire, this plan may not be reinstated. Once you exit the United States, Russia may become a potential partner of the European Mars. (International Online International Tourism)
