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Low-cost innovation in spaceflight: the near earth asteroid rendezvous (near) shoemaker mission
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McCurdy, Howard E. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | On a spring day in 1996, at their research center in the Maryland countryside, representatives from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) presented Administrator Daniel S. Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with a check for $3.6 million. 1 Two and a half years earlier, APL officials had agreed to develop a spacecraft capable of conducting an asteroid rendezvous and to do so for slightly more than $122 million. This was a remarkably low sum for a spacecraft due to conduct a planetaryclass mission. By contrast, the Mars Observer spacecraft launched in 1992 for an orbital rendezvous with the red planet had cost $479 million to develop, while the upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn required a spacecraft whose total cost was approaching $1.4 billion. In an Agency accustomed to cost overruns on major missions, the promise to build a planetary-class spacecraft for about $100 million seemed excessively optimistic. |
| File Size | 3499070 |
| Page Count | 86 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20050159707 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t05x7912f |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2005-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance Nasa Programs Mars Observer Cassini Mission Low Cost Orbital Rendezvous Space Flight Asteroid Missions Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
