NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s colossal

Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by Larrikin on Saturday June 24, 2023 @10:52AM (#36459167)

How about 10 billion to NASA instead of privatizing research with public money.

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by cubefox on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:09AM (#36459341)

Because NASA is absurdity inefficient when developing technology. That's why SLS is such a problem child, and why they abandoned their new space suits, which were already years in development and consumed billions of dollars. They were recently outsourced to a private company which is expected to do it in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the price.

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by onlypositive on Saturday June 24, 2023 @10:54AM (#36459182)

Because NASA hasn't done anything useful at a reasonable cost in decades.

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by Larrikin on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:06AM (#36459313)

I'd rather a somewhat inflated cost to make the research public. Also private equity doesn't mean it's not wasted. 37 billion dollars for a forum.

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by onlypositive on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:14AM (#36467397)

Musk really living rent free eh?

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by dotnet00 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @10:55AM (#36459201)

How many rockets do you think NASA themselves have R&D'd?

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by wongarsu on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:43AM (#36459640)

A lot of those 10 billion would go to aerospace contractors either way. It's not like NASA would spend all that money in-house.

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