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the term is 'boondoggle'. NASA is too distracted with manned spaceflight to adequately manage its unmanned missions
by sidewndr46 3y ago
the term is 'boondoggle'. NASA is too distracted with manned spaceflight to adequately manage its unmanned missions
- csb6 3y agoThere’s no reason to think that NASA’s manned program took away resources from these probe missions. From the article, it seems like the problem is that the Janus probes were going to piggyback on another mission (Psyche) that got delayed for a year due to software issues, causing Janus to miss its window. Psyche seems to have been poorly managed and understaffed, but since the JPL primarily works on unmanned missions I don’t see how you could confidently blame manned programs for the management failure.