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Gary Peters: “That's to achieve the Mars mission, you would need modest increases, in your estimation?”

On the recordJuly 12, 2016
That's to achieve the Mars mission, you would need modest increases, in your estimation?
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Peters questions funding needs for the Mars mission.

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