To: csvset
Mission approved in 2000.
RFP issued in 2004.
Prime contractor selected in 2007.
Original launch target date July 2014.
Actual launch 20 October 2018
I suspect this spacecraft has some seriously outdated technology on board. Hope the component rot doesn't impact reliability. Some people have probably spent their entire careers on this one mission.
3 posted on
10/20/2018 5:31:40 AM PDT by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Justice Brett Kavnaugh... I like the sound of that.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
I suspect this spacecraft has some seriously outdated technology on board.
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Typical big government project takes 25 years to get to its destination.
7 posted on
10/20/2018 6:18:10 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
... spent their entire careers on this one mission.
Ya know, there was an age-limit for personnel assigned to NASA's New Horizons (Pluto-flyby) mission.
They wanted the people to still be working, aka non-retired and alive, when the craft eventually got to Pluto.
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