On Mar 12, 2:19*pm, Rick Jones wrote:
In sci.space.policy wrote:
You do that calculation but why don't you create the list of all the
mission that outlive their life expectancies as well?

Ah, but even if they didn't exceed their initial budgets before
launch, by definition it means they exceeded their budgets because
they had to get extensions to keep monitoring the missions and
gathering the data

But that is money well spent. The problems are total failures that
produce nothing or missions that cost 5 times more than they were
supposed to before they produce anything, not successful missions that
cost more to keep them alive beyond their expected lifetimes. Thos
cost overruns are a good thing.

Eric


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