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Mars rover jam requires more money
BY TODD HALVORSON • FLORIDA TODAY • OCTOBER 11, 2008
NASA officials said Friday it will take more money to finish a mobile science
laboratory in
time to meet launch windows in 2009 or 2011.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory so far has cost $1.9 billion -- a dollar figure
that represents
a $300 million cost overrun.
Saying Congress and the White House must be informed first, agency officials
would not
release estimates for completing the robotic rover in time to launch during
time-critical
opportunities in 2009 and 2011.
But they did say the high-priority mission is so important to NASA science
objectives that
killing the project was out of the question.
Twelfth International Mars Society Convention
Brookhaven National Laboratory Publication Features FMARS
