Congressional Reps Urge NASA to Commit Funds for Mars Sample Return Mission

[gardenfelder]

Around two dozen California congressional representatives sent a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Wednesday calling on him to commit at least $650 million to an ambitious Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led mission to collect rock and soil samples from Mars and return them to Earth.

[salawat]

...Funny, seems to me that's Congress's job to earmark spending for particular purposes.