Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Discovery Survived the End of Faster, Better, Cheaper
In the early nineties, nassa's budget was flat or declining. A sort of budget crisis and sense of bi in a politically being vulnerable certainly help motivate. When the buzget just sort of goes up inevitably and there's no real danger, then, you know, institutions tend to become burecratic because they much nobody to compete against. Or no, nois no powerful motivation to reshape their organization. I mean, j p l has really changed the way it as organized. We had to figure out how to compete with discovery, how to have multiple proposals at the same time,. How to partner with university, p is, whatever.
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