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T+242: NASA’s FY2024 Budget Request (with Casey Dreier)

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Mars Sample Return

Mars sample return has become NASA's top scientific mission at a level of JWST, but exceeding it in terms of annual expenditures. They don't even know what to ask for at this point because they're in phase B. The complexity that we've created, they built a very politically resilient program. It is an insanely difficult problem.

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