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When all the planets are explored in the solar system
In message , Gary Heston
writes In article , Bryan Derksen wrote: [ ... ] The thing that really burns me is that the probe itself is 98% finished. They just need to stick it on a rocket and push the "go" button. The guy who runs NASA Watch says would cost $40 million dollars to finish the project, and the shutdown costs will be $10 million, so NASA saves a grand total of $30 million on the deal. Bah. [ ... ] Well, heck, if they'd actually only need another $30 million, call Bill Gates and ask him to dip into his petty cash fund to bail out the program. He'll probably throw in a copy of Windows Server 2003 to run on the probe for free. In which case "success is not an option" :-) FWIW, I posted a rather bitter comment on alt.sci.planetary about the cancellation and got a response from Henry Spencer saying it was probably the right thing to do http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...thread/thread/ 9038b0abc18c2024/06bd202e0d76e0df?lnk=st&q=%22troubled+asteroid+mis sion%2 2&rnum=1&hl=en#06bd202e0d76e0df |
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