NASA kills Champollion to pay for Chandra, Hubble overruns

NASA space science managers have decided to kill the proposed Champollion comet-landing mission to save money for future Mars orbiters and to pay for overruns on two of the agency's orbiting observatories. Edward Weiler, associate administrator for space science, decided on Friday to terminate work...

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