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

https://www.science.org/content/article/mars-sample-return-got-new-price-tag-it-s-big

by Protostome • 3 years ago

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simonblack2• 3 years ago

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.

Protostome• 3 years ago

The US annual budget is around 5.8 trillion dollars.

NASA gets around 33 billion

There is money.. it's just a matter of priorities

simonblack2• 3 years ago

Well, exactly.

It's just that NASA is a very long way down on the list of priorities. Close an overseas military base or two, (you can't tell me every single one of those nine-hundred or so bases is not redundant) and you could have NASA absolutely rolling in cash.

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

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