Recommend or recommended

Hi,

I have just read the following article in the internet and got confuse on the use of the verb recommend.. In the 1st paragraph it says recommended(past tense) and in the second just recommend(present tense). Is the use of recommend in the second paragraph correct? Thank you very much.

To keep within NASA’s budget, they recommended only one mission a decade in the “Flagship” class, costing over $650 million. The first would be the Europa Geophysical Explorer, to orbit the ice-covered moon and measure properties of the ocean thought to lie beneath it.

The panel calls that study “a stepping stone towards understanding the astrobiological potential of all icy satellites”. They recommend a Mars sample return mission be next in line, shortly after 2013.