Re:James Webb is fully deployed
by WalterBright on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:52PM
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If it makes you feel any better, if I had Gates' money I'd be funding a fleet of probes. Most of the same design :-)
Perhaps the cost of NASA probes is so high because politically they cannot tolerate failure. This drives the cost up 10x, which means it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that failure is career-ending.
Contrast this with Musk's approach to blow them up until they work, and then he has cheap launch vehicles.
Perhaps the cost of NASA probes is so high because politically they cannot tolerate failure. This drives the cost up 10x, which means it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that failure is career-ending.
Contrast this with Musk's approach to blow them up until they work, and then he has cheap launch vehicles.