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After reports that budget cuts would force NASA to shut down the Mars rovers that landed in 2004, NASA has confirmed the rovers will continue work as usual. The rovers were initially hoped to last 90 days, but have kept working for over four years now allowing NASA to gather tons of information on the Red planet. I hate to bring politics into this, but perhaps the government should look into cutting defense spending rather than cutting the already small budget given to improving technology. NASA does far more with the money it is given than all the other government agencies that waste money. The amount of money wasted in Iraq could have sent manned missions to the moon and Mars many times over and replaced our archaic Space Shuttle Fleet with a more modern system rather than bringing back the Apollo like series.

Source: CNN Blog