Space Policy Edition: Why are outer planets missions so expensive?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Pioneers Are Not Going to Try to Do Complete Explorations
These are the pathfinders. They are not going to try to do complete explorations, they just want to prove that we can do this. But to do that, you have to get there. You have to survive yet and get tho the asteroid bell yet. To survive the radiation environment of jupiter, all of that, and whatever other unknown are out there that we don't knowut begause to run. Man, i just cannot believe that this is truethat they don't even have computers, right on these spacecraft. There's no real logical computing an on these ancrap to keep them simple. Yeswy imean, these are built with 19 sixt
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