Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Discovery Programme - What Is It?
Discovery programme is an account within nassas planetary science, explanetary exploration science division. It funds what are nominally lo cost, frequent missions that are competed in the sense that nassa doesn't have they basically put up a chunk of money. They have been very successful over the years, and we've seen a lot of really exciting missions. Gral that did the gravity map of the moon, is a discovery mission. We saw a messenger to mercury, maybe one of the most high profile and successful discovery missions,. That mapped all the surface of mercury for the first time. And pathfinder, which, again, we have the 20 fifth anniversary of, demonstrated, proved that
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