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On the recordFebruary 28, 2012
By proposing a cut of more than $300 million the Administration not only threatens the most successful exploration program in NASA history, it also imperils what is certainly the world's most specialized workforce, engineers and scientists at JPL who specialize in entry, descent, and landing on other planets.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

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Bishop criticizes budget cuts to NASA's Mars program and its impact on skilled workforce.

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