NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal

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From Ars Technica:
"... According to two sources familiar with the meeting, the Program Manager for the mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Richard Cook, and the director of the mission at NASA Headquarters, Jeff Gramling, briefed agency leaders last week on costs. They had some sobering news: the price had doubled. The development cost for the mission was no longer $4.4 billion. Rather, the new estimate put it at $8 to $9 billion. ..."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/t ... ker-shock/

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[Frankskywatcher]

2030 or later to retrieve the samples that’s nuts and it could top 10 million

[Ylem]

I can only imagine how much it would cost to return humans from Mars.

[Juno16]

$8 to $9 billion. ..."

Dang!!!!

[helicon]

I like how NASA thinks. Constant cost overruns and ever increasing budgetary woes. It's like someone putting $100,000 of debt on their credit cards and expecting to pay it back one day.