President Biden's 2024 budget request pulled a chunk of funding from NASA's VERITAS mission, save for $1.5 million to help sustain the science team.
with a proposed total of $27.2 billion, of which $3.383 billion would be allocated towards planetary science. However, the space agency only requested $1.5 million for its Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy mission, a major downgrade from the projected 2024 budget of the mission that was estimated at $124 million.
“It’s just barely enough to keep us alive,” Darby Dyar, the deputy principal investigator of the VERITAS mission, told Gizmodo over the phone. Dyar, who is 65 years old, has been working on the mission for 12 years now, and was looking forward to finally seeing it in action. “When they push this mission back, that means I’m gonna be old when we get to Venus,” she added. “I’m taking my vitamins and taking care of myself. I’m hanging in there, man.
And nobody wants a zombie mission, especially when that mission was way overdue to begin with. NASA’s last mission to Venus, Magellan, arrived at the planet in 1989 and concluded science operations in 1994. Since then, NASA hasn’t sent out a mission to Earth’s neighboring planet, much to the disdain of the highly dedicated Venus community. In 2021,, delighting Venus devotees for a brief moment before their planetary hopes were crushed.
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