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Exciting news but is it an unqualified positive for both? Sometimes Constraints are what drives breakthrough innovations. India's ability to Manage Significant
by suprgeek 12y ago
Exciting news but is it an unqualified positive for both?
Sometimes Constraints are what drives breakthrough innovations.
India's ability to Manage Significant space exploration programmes on a Shoe string budget is driven in part by the need to innovate on a "ShoeString" budget. What we as a race desperately need is low cost access to Space - which perhaps may not become such a priority if NASA is allowed to influence ISRO.
On the other hand maybe ISRO will influence NASA & wewill get the best of both - super low cost missions with super advanced payloads :)
- cjensen 12y agoNASA had a "go cheap" program to try crazy stuff on a shoestring that just might work. There were good results like Pathfinder ($150M) which tried the crazy idea of landing using an airbag. The problem is that the Powers That Be were not understanding about the failures inherent in trying crazy ideas out. So we went back to expensive spacecraft which were less likely to fail.
- Ankaios 12y agoNASA has opportunities like the Small Explorers (SMEX, http://explorers.larc.nasa.gov/APSMEX/ http://explorers.larc.nasa.gov/APSMEX/), Discovery (http://discovery.nasa.gov/p_mission.cfml http://discovery.nasa.gov/p_mission.cfml), and New Frontiers (http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/program/index.cfml http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/program/index.cfml) into which you can propose to conduct missions of different size/cost classes. If you have low-cost mission concepts for achieving important scientific objectives, please propose them.