> Each mission at JPL is like its own semi-independent startup. We as people used to call these 'projects'.. I fail to see how a funded mission within a gov't

> Each mission at JPL is like its own semi-independent startup. We as people used to call these 'projects'.. I fail to see how a funded mission within a gov't organization which will never sell anything is anything at all like a small company bootstrapping a commercial product..