NASA Administrator Warns of the Impact of Cuts
Says mission to Mars could be put at risk
As NASA's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docks with the ISS, its head, Charles Bolden, has warned that recent political events could impact the agency's mission.
He says that NASA's plans to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s could be jeopardized with the sequestration the President was force by law to sign on Friday evening.
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NASA hasn't been serving any useful purpose for some time. And certainly the agency is over exaggerating about this. Over exaggeration has become NASA's most well honed skill in recent years.
Let me know when there's going to be some actual substantial cuts.