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NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 6 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.