WE MADE IT TO MARS !!!
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It looks like they don't have a common scene to spend $740 million, when the USA outsource software to India and almost every tiny hardware manufacturing to China :laugh: Based on your link one interesting thing which I found out was NASA Choosing Atlas 5 Rocket to launch new mars orbiter. And the total launch service itself costed $187 million.
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Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V[^] http://www.space.com/9392-nasa-chooses-atlas-5-rocket-launch-mars-orbiter.html[^]
Way to answer a different question!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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I didn't think it was about profit, but you seemed to think that the movie Gravity was a waste of money. I merely pointed out that your argument was fallacious. Oh, and I assume that no further aid needs to be sent to India.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
you seemed to think that the movie Gravity was a waste of money
I, OTOH, think it was a waste of time. I was so unenchanted with it that I can't even remember how it ended -- and I'll be damned if I'll give them more money, just to find out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!