Disagreement over Mars budget cuts preceded Stern’s departure

Squabbling over budget cuts in the Mars program apparently led Alan Stern, NASA’s hard-charging associate administrator for science, to resign from the agency Mar. 25. Stern declined comment on his abrupt move, but it came right after Administrator Michael Griffin countermanded an order from Stern’s...

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