Mars Sample Return project got a new, high, price tag

NASA has huge funding problem. High-cost missions that need very expensive research will never be funded to completion.

And yet NASA has such 'prestige' in the US that whenever I state that on US websites like this, you can be assured that I will be down-voted to oblivion. Probably because deep in their hearts, those downvoters know that NASA is running on fumes and just literally cannot afford anything really expensive.