Policy

NASA Administrator Warns of the Impact of Cuts

Says mission to Mars could be put at risk

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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.