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The Science Team Is Not Happy
Congress can help by setting a 2029 launch date, and then we can start to work to fix this problem financially. The science team, as you might imagine, is not happy. It's to work as long as they did decades trying to get this mission to Venus and to have the rug pulled out from them is just profoundly dispiriting. We should note this mission had $90 million worth of contributions from European partners, including primarily the Italian space agency. They were already building these things. And so this delay is already impacting this partnership model that at the high level, ... undermines this commitment to support our eyeliner partners," he said.