The total mission cost for New Horizons (the probe that gave us the beautiful portraits of Pluto) was $700M. The Voyager probes cost ~$850M, which needs adjusting for inflation. We should be launching one ambitious mission of this kind a month, not struggling to do one a decade
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This is my real beef with the space dad plutocrats. They want the Apollo program with better lumbar support because ultimately, they want to go up in a rocket. What a stunted, boring way to spend a Second Gilded Age fortune!
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