{"id":1160579,"date":"2023-07-13T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1160579"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:26:34","slug":"the-senate-just-lobbed-a-tactical-nuke-at-nasas-mars-sample-return-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1160579","title":{"rendered":"The Senate just lobbed a tactical nuke at NASA\u2019s Mars Sample Return program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mars_2-800x444-1.jpg\" alt=\"The fate of a mission to return samples from Mars hangs in the balance.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mars_2.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"800\" data-width=\"1440\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The fate of a mission to return samples from Mars hangs in the balance. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-selects-five-mars-orbiter-concept-studies\">NASA<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The US Senate on Thursday slashed the budget for NASA&#8217;s ambitious mission to return soil and rock samples from Mars&#8217; surface.<\/p>\n<p>NASA had asked for $949 million to support its Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, in fiscal year 2024. In its proposed budget for the space agency, released Thursday, the Senate offered just $300 million and threatened to take that amount away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Committee has significant concerns about the technical challenges facing MSR and potential further impacts on confirmed missions, even before MSR has completed preliminary design review,&#8221; stated the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee in its report on the budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1953815#p3\">Read 14 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1953815&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1953815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Senate just lobbed a tactical nuke at NASA\u2019s Mars Sample Return program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The fate of a mission to return samples from Mars hangs in the balance. (credit: NASA) The US Senate on Thursday slashed the budget for NASA&#8217;s ambitious mission to return soil and rock samples from Mars&#8217; surface. NASA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1160579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1160579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}