Alan Stern, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, is worried that future NASA missions will be scrapped to make room for more funding for the 2018-2020 missions. These missions are supposed to go to Mars and gather samples of the Martian soil and then return with them to Earth. This of course is a very difficult mission that will require a lot of spending. As such no missions after the 2009 launch are garenteed. Some people are worried that if we leave the Mars program for a decade all the people who are really interested in going to Mars will leave the program and the program will simply be left with people who like to draw charts. The biggest concern is loosing public interest in the Red Planet.
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