NASA's Funding and Mission Plans in Flux: A Recap.
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NASA may have to choose between continuing the delayed VERITAS mission to Venus or requesting proposals for a future Discovery mission due to budget pressures in its planetary science program. The agency's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal included only $1.5 million for VERITAS, which was selected as one of two Discovery missions in 2021. The future budget projections for VERITAS keep the mission at $1.5 million a year through fiscal year 2028, effectively indefinitely delaying the mission. NASA may have to choose between continuing VERITAS or holding a competition for the next Discovery-class mission, currently scheduled for fiscal year 2025.
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