Reprieve for Spirit and Opportunity

Apparently the cuts directed toward the rovers Spirit and Opportunity and also (I think) for the Mars Odyssey orbiter have been rescinded. This L.A. Times article says that the cuts were not cleared by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin. The article contains a few factual errors. For instance it states that Griffin tried to stop the Space Shuttle Hubble servicing mission when in fact that was the previous administrator Sean O'Keefe. Griffin came in from day 1 saying he wanted the Hubble mission to go forward.

In other NASA news I've heard that Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Alan Stern has resigned. I have yet to see independent confirmation of that though.

Good news though that those cuts have been rescinded!