Tag: budget
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission
After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA...
NASA's attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission's problems are not
Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation’s worth of scientific progress contingent upon...
California libraries may lose free passes to state parks as budget deficit mounts
As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more...
Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission prompt hundreds of layoffs at JPL
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off hundreds of employees this week in anticipation of massive funding cuts in the next federal...