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Seriously. Two weeks ago, the GRAIL project sent two satellites on a Delta 2 to the moon. To the MOON. The entire mission, soup to nuts, cost 496 million dollar
by jen_h 15y ago
Seriously. Two weeks ago, the GRAIL project sent two satellites on a Delta 2 to the moon. To the MOON. The entire mission, soup to nuts, cost 496 million dollars.
To put this in perspective, with this cash, we could have also purchased one of the following:
- Two F-35s
- .07% of the TARP bank bailout
- Half of Groupon's Series D
I'd rather go to the moon.
- hugh3 15y agoSounds like a lot just for the Moon. The whole Juno mission to Jupiter is currently budgeted at a mere $371.1 million. (Or for $500 million, we could give a loan guarantee to Solyndra and watch it go bankrupt!)