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Feb 13, 2012
NASA Budget Pushes Science to the BrinkThe U.S. Administration is proposing a budget for Fiscal Year 2013 that would force NASA to walk away from planned missions to Mars, delay for decades any flagship missions to the outer planets, and radically slow the pace of scientific discovery, including the search for life on other worlds.
Jan 19, 2012
Thirty Percent for Science: Planetary Society Calls for Increased Investment for the FutureThe Planetary Society has called on the U.S. Administration to rebalance NASA's portfolio of programs and missions so that Science is given 30 percent of the agency's budget.
Jan 13, 2012
Phobos LIFE Set to Re-enter Earth's AtmosphereWorldwide members of the Planetary Society await the final fate of the Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) biomodule. Intended to share a roundtrip to Mars' moon Phobos, the tiny experiment became stuck in low Earth orbit when its host--the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft--failed to set out across interplanetary space.
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