NASA downsizes, slows Dawn mission to near halt, Pasadena Star News

“Chris Russell, the mission’s principal investigator and a professor of geophysics at UCLA, said he was shocked by NASA’s recent request that Dawn “stand down.” “They basically said that we should slow down or almost stop the development while they decide to take a look at it and make an investigation,” Russell said. “They got concerned by the number of problems that they saw that we were having.”

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