Griffin on Loss of U.S. Space Leadership
IceBreaker was originally set to launch in 2002, with landing site
selected near Peary cater, based on Lunar Prospector data. Total
mission cost ~ $100Mil, with robot design done in CMU led by their
robotics legend William "Red" Whittaker himself.
For the cost of LRO and its followups, you could have probably launched
five IceBreakers to different sites far earlier.
-kert
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