Mars Scout Program To Seek More Money For 2011 Mission

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Mars Scout Program To Seek More Money For 2011 Mission

08/22/2005 10:53:37 AM
By Jefferson Morris

NASA's Mars Scout program is seeking more money in its fiscal 2007 budget request to allow for the per-mission cost cap to be raised from its original level of $325 million to a level above $400 million.

"I've recognized that that is an inadequate amount of money to get a reasonable-risk mission to Mars," Mars Exploration Program Director Doug McCuistion told The DAILY. "It's just not as cheap as flying low-Earth orbit stuff. And therefore I intend to increase the cap over what it was."

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