Sentences with phrase «expensive planetary missions»

And at a total cost of $ 3.3 billion, it is also among the most expensive planetary missions.

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It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze - Makuch of Washington State University say the NASA Office of Planetary Protection's «detailed and expensive» efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off Mars are making missions to search for life on the red planet «unviable.»