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NASA loves to downplay expectations in case something goes wrong, but people really underappreciate just how overengineered these things are, which makes sense
by Salgat 2y ago
NASA loves to downplay expectations in case something goes wrong, but people really underappreciate just how overengineered these things are, which makes sense when a bad mission can be political suicide for their future funding.
- gdubs 2y agoIt was also incredibly on budget. I think Sagan says in the book it cost the individual American taxpayers in the single digit dollars.
- noselasd 2y agoSingle digit dollar sounds more like the Appollo program. I think it's been a long time since the entire NASA budget was more than a penny per tax dollar. NASA says the voyager mission cost 865 million dollars from the start in 1972 to Neptune encounter in 1989, and currently runs at 7 mllion dollars per year.