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Projects: Europa Mission CampaignProject UpdatesExploring Europa is one of the most important and urgent goals for all the spacefaring nations. Yet, getting Europa back on the agenda -- getting a thrilling new mission into development -- is going to take a lot of very hard work. It’s time for to step up and make a Europa mission happen.
In the recently passed NASA Appropriations bill, the US Congress directed NASA to begin work on a Europa orbiter and to make a request for a new start for a Europa mission project in fiscal year 2007. But now word has it that there will be no Europa proposal in the 2007 budget proposal that will be made to Congress early next year. The Washington Aerospace Briefing, a respected newsletter publication of Space News, is reporting that the Administration’s Office of Management and Budget is denying the Europa request on budget grounds. more » |
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