NASA Will Not Fly Next Mars Rover Until 2020

Credit: Nasa/Jim Grossmann
It all comes down to Curiosity. The big nuclear-powered Mars rover is NASA's last chance to drive scientific instruments around on the Martian surface in this decade. After that, it may be 2020 before the U.S. can afford to launch another rover to the red planet. As recently as last fall, NASA had...

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