• Vince@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m amazed it’s that cheap. Really puts a different perspective on dollar amounts I read in headlines if look at them in terms of how many missions to titan it could have been.

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        7 months ago

        It’s already triple the price. The original budget for the mission was on the order of a billion dollars, it was a New Frontiers mission and missions of that class aren’t supposed to go over that limit.

        I appreciate the science NASA manages to get done, but there is something seriously wrong with that agency’s budgeting process and has been for decades.