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Fate of NASA’s InSight Mars mission to be decided soon
NASA is close to deciding whether to spend an extra $150 million to send the InSight lander to Mars in 2018 or cancel the mission after an instrument problem made the spacecraft miss a launch opportunity this year, with a verdict on the project's future expected within weeks, officials said.
Launch of NASA’s next Mars mission delayed until at least 2018
Persistent problems with a seismometer instrument package will keep NASA's InSight Mars lander from departing for the red planet during a March launch period, and officials said they will consider shelving the $675 million project if the issues prove too costly to fix.