MSL "Heat shield woes" |
MSL "Heat shield woes" |
Feb 17 2008, 04:20 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Feb 20 2008, 07:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 13-October 05 Member No.: 528 |
I hate to be an armchair quarterback, so I'm not going to say even one tenth of the things that are running through my mind right now.
The cost overruns on MSL have already dug holes in other people's budgets, and it just keeps right on gobbling up money. I admire the incredible things JPL has accomplished in the last 40 years, including the spectaculare sucess of the Mars Exploration Program, but JPL has allowed an 800 million dollar project to baloon into a 1.8 billion dollar project. And all of this after the hard lessons of Mars 98 were supposed to have instilled a sense of reality into project planning. By the time this whole mess gets sorted out it will have done a lot of damage. I shudder to think what might end up happening to the Mars program. The Fiscal 2009 budget cuts may be just the begining. |
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