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Old 08-07-2012, 11:11 AM   #124
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Originally Posted by zamler View Post
NASA is something like 0.4% of the total budget, it makes no sense to chop out a few hundred million IMO. Even if they diverted 1% of military spending to NASA, it would be incredible what they would do with it. NASA has a 70% success rate putting a working craft on Mars, everyone else slightly above zero.
IIRC, this mission is $1 B over budget; total is now $2.5 B.
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