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Published online 14 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/455840a

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Mars missions face cost crunch

In Europe and America, future missions are in doubt.

Geoff Brumfiel & Ashley Yeager

Europe's next Mars mission launch looks likely to slip from 2013 to 2016. And budget overruns on NASA's next Mars rover threaten future missions there and elsewhere.

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  • Men will never land Mars... giz

    • 14 Oct, 2008
    • Posted by: Gennady Zebrev

  • Mars' is exhaustively, punctiliously boring. Send a polarimeter to seek biological resolved chirality or stop burning money.

    • 15 Oct, 2008
    • Posted by: "Uncle Al" Schwartz