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"Delaying the next Scout mission is allowing the mission planning teams to re-plan their proposed missions," he said.
The proposed missions provide an opportunity to harness the UK's world-class expertise in small satellite, communication and robotic technologies focused on exploration of the Moon".
The Nasa science chief, John Grunsfeld, said while all three proposed missions, which cost no more than $425m£270m0m) were good, the Mars project showed the best chance of keeping within budget and on schedule.
This officer, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the work, also acknowledged that these concerns had restrained the military from carrying out a number of proposed missions.
In NASA's Earth science program, the ballooning price tags of missions already being built have severely delayed proposed missions to study global climate change and to pioneer early-warning systems for earthquakes, among others.
The new Imperial concept comes amid renewed interest in the Red Planet, with two private groups having proposed missions.
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The proposed mission carries a start-up cost of $41 million, with no estimates of the amount it would eventually cost.
Mr Ghweil pointed out that his administration has not even been consulted by the European Union over the proposed mission.
SpaceX will provide the primary means of propulsion, the longer-range Falcon Heavy rocket, and a modified lander called Red Dragon, for Nasa's proposed mission to Mars in 2018 that would lay the groundwork for later human flights.
Adm. Thomas B. Fargo, commander of American forces in the Pacific, is scheduled to meet with Mr. Rumsfeld in Washington in the next few days, and officials said they were likely to discuss details of the proposed mission.
Given that, it is interesting to note that the size of the proposed mission is almost identical to the one deployed to Bosnia before the start of the war there in 1992.
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