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Article: Romania: NASA and ESA Team Up for Mars Exploration.
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- June 26, 2009
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Byline: sander03
After much rumor on the issue, it would appear that the American space agency NASA, and its European counterpart, ESA, will soon reach a conclusive agreement of collaboration for the ExoMars exploration mission, currently scheduled to take off sometime in 2016. The rover, which is about the same size as the American Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), will have a vast array of scientific instruments, but its costs are already over budget, and ESA has already sacrificed one of its instruments so as to keep funding in check.
Starting the week of June 29th, the science directors of ESA and NASA are scheduled to begin a series of ...