France set to spend about $443 million on Mars sample return

France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has budgeted 2.5 billion francs (about $443 million) for its part in a planned joint mission with NASA to return samples from Mars in the second half of the coming decade, officials told the French Senate this week. Education and Research Minister...

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