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• Jacqueline Feldscher
House minibus bill cuts Mars Sample Return funding, likely dooming mission
A House minibus spending bill cuts FY funding for NASA's Mars Sample Return, a move that likely dooms the campaign to retrieve Perseverance's cached tubes of Martian material. With dozens of samples already collected on Mars and other programs advancing, MSR faces multi‑year uncertainty.
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