"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
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In article , Ron Baalke wrote:

"We learned mind-boggling things. This mission was worth its weight
in gold," said Dr. Claudia Alexander, Galileo project manager.

Hmm... Galileo was 3,900kg or so; ~125,000 troy oz... forty-eight and a
quarter million dollars, unless my sums have lost a place or two. I
can't find a cost for Galileo offhand, but I think it certainly tops out
the gold standard comfortably ;-)

Yup - at 3.2B$ for Galileo , and only 48M$ for it's weight in gold, I'd
hope it was worth a great deal more than that

Doug