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Is the OMB Trying To End Planetary Exploration?

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-wouldn't-like-us-when-we're-angry dept.

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 already killed the Europa mission that was to have been the next outer planet mission after Cassini."

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  1. Acronym by Wandering+Idiot · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would have been nice if the summary had stated what OMB stands for somewhere (Office of Management and Budget). I was trying to figure out if it was some wacky new term for Obama or his administration.