I think looking into better means of propulsion (with nuclear being the obvious first choice) goes a long way to improving explorer missions. So, I don't see this as "being at the expense of planetary missions", but rather as a sharpening the axe time, a time to improve future planetary missions. For a long time I've felt that NASA steps over dimes to pick up nickles, but this is a change for the better in that policy. (For example, not finishing the replacement for the Space Shuttle citing "expense costs" even though finishing the project would cost less that two shuttle launches.) On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:35:17 -0800 (PST) David Moulton <dmoulton@rocketmail.com> wrote:
I'm interested to hear opinions on NASA's decision to pursue nuclear propulsion research at the expense of some planetary missions.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7300
dave
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