It would be hard to overstate the scientific return on investment from missions like New Horizons, which cost taxpayers less than the dining room on the International Space Station. It's enormously frustrating that we don't do ten of these a year.https://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon/status/1417984673616117761 …
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(Sorry, got my dates wrong. The one Uranus flyby took place in 1986, with 1974 hardware.)
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Why can't we have even one space billionaire who is obsessed with flying in a wingsuit on Titan instead of just cosplaying Project Mercury, or promoting a Fyre Festival on Mars? Why do they all have to be so basic? America needs better billionaires.
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Don’t we need the planets to line up exactly to hit these outer orbit targets, since we need to slingshot off Jupiter and/or Saturn to reach Uranus?
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