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Pluto-Kuiper Express A Go (Again ... For Now ...)

Posted by timothy on from the tentative-steps dept.

Guppy06 writes: "According to this article at CNN, Congress has approved $30 million for the bastard stepchild that is the Pluto-Kuiper Express probe. Originally slated for a 2004 launch, it's now pushed back to 2006, the last possible date to launch while Jupiter is in the right place and Pluto's atmosphere is still an atomsphere. After being snubbed by NASA and then by the Bush administration (and in light of the recent budgeting complaints), it remains to be seen if NASA will actually go ahead with it."

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  1. Posted two days ago by Man+of+E · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't this exactly the same story as this one posted two days ago? That story was both about this Pluto mission and the development of the Mars program, but a lot of the issues with Pluto have already been discussed.

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