NASA quietly canceled the Mars

NASA quietly canceled the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), set for launch in 2009, by deleting it from the President's budget amendment for Fiscal 2006. The reason is that robotic missions designed to lead to a human trip to Mars, that would have been supported by MTO, have been cut back in...

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