On Mar 13, 8:47*am, "Martha Adams" wrote:
"Rick Jones" wrote in message

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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

rick jones
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Speaking of overruns and implied mismanagement ...has anyone looked at
the *economy* lately? *And those two *wars* and what are we getting back
from those? *??

Titeotwawki -- mha * * [sci.space.policy * 2009 Mar 13]

A few trillion here and there. It's only out hard earned money, plus
whatever it takes for servicing our 64 trillion dollar debt. The next
ten generations and massive global inflation gets to pay for it.

~ BG