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The headline is rather link-baity. There's nothing wrong with the spacecraft or its planned Pluto visit. The "crisis" is that we haven't found any Kuiper belt
by T-hawk 12y ago
The headline is rather link-baity. There's nothing wrong with the spacecraft or its planned Pluto visit. The "crisis" is that we haven't found any Kuiper belt object feasible for the spacecraft to visit after Pluto, which was the plan for the mission, but a distant secondary objective after Pluto itself.
- DavidSJ 12y agoAlso, one of the article's key quotes makes the sunk cost fallacy: “They’re running out of time,” says Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, who is not involved in the mission. “We’re not just talking about science being lost — we’re talking about getting return on our investment.”
- wcfields 12y agoAgreed on baity headline! I know I'm looking forward to actually seeing pictures of Pluto since I was in elementary-school and learned about the solar system.