Is OMB wiping out planetary exploration?

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Submission + - Is OMB wiping out planetary exploration? (thespacereview.com)

Submitted by EccentricAnomaly on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @11:02PM

EccentricAnomaly writes: Lou Friedman (former head of the Planetary Society) has written a provocative article over at Space Policy Review where he accuses the Obama administration of working on plans to gut the robotic Mars program in order to pay for NASA's exciting new rocket. This is after NASA's already killed the Europa mission that was to have been the next outer planet mission after Cassini.

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