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Thank you for engaging with our analysis, @NASAAdmin Isaacman. As we stated in the report, this is an exercise worth pursuing. We share your desire to make sure that every decision and every dollar spent creates more wins for science.
We agree plutonium shouldn't sit idle.
We agree plutonium shouldn't sit idle.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin · Jul 31Launch 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
Open quoted post →That said, it would be crazy not to take advantage of hardware taxpayers have already invested hundreds of millions of
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