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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

456 points · 391 comments · Muhammad523

  1. maxdo · · focus · HN ↗
    Total starship mission including launches is 15 billion to date , and it’s on the verge of entering limited commercial service . Maybe without re use but as a much cheaper super heavy rocket , like 10x cheaper without re use already .

    It make sense to a certain extent to focus on a capability researches vs largely throw away mission to deliver a few rocks for 20 billions.

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