Re: Messenger - long way to Mercury?

From: John Stoffel (stoffel_at_lucent.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:33:33 -0400

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) writes:

> (c) the program is a random grab-bag of missions, with no continuity in
> targets or engineering, so the incentive is to get maximum return out of a
> unique flight opportunity, rather than to ensure that the first one works
> so the experience can be used to improve the second and third.

I though that DS-1 (and some of the others) were primarily engineering
missions that were designed to validate and push into general use new
technologies. Isnt' that part of the discovery missions goals?

John

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