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Nature 430, 129 (8 July 2004) | doi:10.1038/430129a; Published online 8 July 2004

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Senator urges private groups to run cut-price Moon shot

Tony Reichhardt

A key Senate committee, frustrated with what it claims are inflated cost estimates at NASA, is calling for the next lunar science mission to be handed to the private sector. But space-agency officials say that letting an outside group run the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission would be risky and may jeopardize a planned 2008 launch date.

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