NASA Missions Can Continue Forward - Sophia Davison
Recently, NASA's Planetary Program has been tense with anticipation to see if the planned programs that the entire board and staff have ached over in tireless nights and endless days will go through. For the past few years, the Obama administration had slowly been making cut-backs on the financing of NASA's exploratory space programs, yet Congress has managed to add back portions of the financing year-by-year. Pending financing decisions from the board, NASA will make necessary revisions to their program's cost and be forced to limit some scientific explorations. Yet there seems to be hope, since NASA's ongoing missions in space, including Cassini, a satellite in orbit around Saturn to collect data on the magnetic and gravitational fields of the planet, along with the rover named Curiosity, sent to Mars for the purpose of discovering information about the early history of the planet, have been approved to continue further work. The ratings Cassini has received have given NASA the go-ahead to keep the project advancing for another three years, and Curiosity is allowed to continue until further significant research has been made.
As these exciting new projects continue to make headway into unknown areas of scientific development, even more experimental plans are in the works for the NASA Planetary Program. Later on this month, NASA will be introducing a new robotic probe, named Maven, onto Mars to search for clues to Mars' history in dramatic climate change. Plans for the New Horizons Spacecraft to pass Pluto for the first up-close shots next July,along with the Jupiter-targeted Juno to be released next July, lead us to an exciting prospect for the next few years in space and planetary development. Hopefully finances and the panel of directors will allow for more exploration out into the world that exists outside of our planet.
this is exiting, considering there hasn't been as much space exploration these past years.
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