Comments on: Is There Life On Mars? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/10/09/is-there-life-on-mars/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:15:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: StanFlouride http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/10/09/is-there-life-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-1061298 StanFlouride Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:04:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=5685#comment-1061298 52 years later: Over-budget Mars mission granted stay of execution- NASA officials decided on Friday to press ahead with the over-budget Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, rumoured to be in danger of cancellation. The mission, which would drop a nuclear-powered rover the size of an SUV on the surface of Mars to search for signs of habitability, is already $300 million over its proposed 2006 budget of $1.6 billion. MSL is currently set to take off in September or October 2009. http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14917-overbudget-mars-mission-granted-stay-of-execution.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14917 52 years later:
Over-budget Mars mission granted stay of execution-

NASA officials decided on Friday to press ahead with the over-budget Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, rumoured to be in danger of cancellation.
The mission, which would drop a nuclear-powered rover the size of an SUV on the surface of Mars to search for signs of habitability, is already $300 million over its proposed 2006 budget of $1.6 billion. MSL is currently set to take off in September or October 2009.

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