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Trump Plan to Kill Dozens of NASA Missions Threatens US Space Supremacy
The White House’s spending plans would further the space agency’s evolution toward becoming an incubator for private industry
The Perseverance Mars rover, in this image provided by NASA, in 2024.
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NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to collect dirt it places in tubes and leaves on the ground.
Engineers designed Perseverance to be the first step in the agency’s exploration of the Red Planet. In the future, more robotic spacecraft would arrive to sweep up the capsules and rocket them back to Earth, where scientists could look for signs that Mars once was, or is, a world with life.