Re: Juno yes, Moonrise no

In article <1117718432.234282.49350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Allen Thomson" <thomsona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Juno mission is part of NASA's New Frontiers program. It was chosen
> for funding over another project, dubbed Moonrise, that proposed to
> drop robotic landers into a crater at the south pole of the moon,
> returning samples to Earth.
>
> [snip]
>
> "This was a very tough decision given the exciting and innovative
> nature of the two missions," Ghassem Asrar, deputy associate
> administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a
> statement.

Given their both exciting and innovative, why the heck didn't they
choose the one that adheres to NASA's new mission? The only worthwhile
thing Bush has done since he took office was to remove the Moon taboo at
NASA -- or so I had thought. But now we're funding another Jupiter
mission, right in the middle of the VSE schedule?

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