NASA's proposed mission to return samples picked up by its Perseverance Mars rover is in big trouble."These are painful but necessary adjustments that will enable us to adhere to our budget allocation while continuing our important work for NASA and our nation," JPL director Laurie Leshin wrote in a
But with a massively reduced budget, the mission is in more trouble than it's ever been — and leaders are trying to stop it from imploding completely. At least, that's the plan on paper. Needless to say, it's a planetary Rube Goldberg machine that's already required an astronomical amount of funding and years of planning.
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