Mars Mission, Asteroid Redirect: NASA Advisory Council Tells NASA 'Terminate ARM... Get People to Mars'

"If this technology is designed to go to Mars and back, let's send it to Mars and back," said Steve Squyres, chairman of the advisory committee, according to the Houston Chronicle. NASA is not bound by the committee's finding, but it does add fuel to those who are impatient for a spaceflight to Mars.

The asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) was slated to test SEP, but the $1.25 billion mission has been panned by scientists and much of Congress, according to the Houston Chronicle.

According to the Houston Chronicle, former Goddard Space Flight Center director and council member Thomas Young told NASA: "What we really should be saying is terminate ARM, take the $1.25 billion and apply it to the technology to get people to Mars. That's the cold hard facts of what we're saying."

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