New NASA Budget Would Shut Down Old Spacecraft

Credit: Curiosity: NASA JPL
NASA faces another congressional battle over the ongoing problem of deciding when to shut down a working spacecraft to build something new, after targeting the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity for termination in its fiscal 2016 budget request. The agency...

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