NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
@NASAAdmin
Launch and landing costs are a reality for any mission, so setting those aside, if PROMISE costs even 20% of your low-end estimate, we simply will not fly it.
That said, it would be crazy not to take advantage of hardware taxpayers have already invested hundreds of millions of
That said, it would be crazy not to take advantage of hardware taxpayers have already invested hundreds of millions of
Planetary Society@exploreplanets · Jul 31NASA wants to send Perseverance's engineering twin to the Moon — reusing hardware sounds like a budget-friendly, quick option. But would it actually save money? Our Chief of Space Policy Casey Dreier ran the numbers.
Spoiler: it would still cost a fortune and it wouldn't be
Open quoted post →Spoiler: it would still cost a fortune and it wouldn't be
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