Canceled were the Prometheus mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter, and the 2009 launch of a Mars telecommunications orbiter.
The job losses were not related to President George W. Bush's goal of returning astronauts to the moon and setting up a moon base as a waystation for deeper space travel, Baggett said.
I think that last paragraph is bullshit. But if something has to go, maybe it's best that unmanned probes take a backseat to human exploration. Ultimately, human expansion in space will enable unmanned ventures that are quite beyond our present ability.
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This can't really have effect, I think like this.
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