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NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm sure it will be triple the price, but even then it is still cheap.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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.

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