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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Lunar Resource Mapper Status (Was Re: funding for Lunar Prospector)
- Message-ID: <BzoqqC.24@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:01:23 GMT
- References: <BzM3BE.GvJ.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BzMx43.Kvy@zoo.toronto.edu> <22DEC199214281236@judy.uh.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <22DEC199214281236@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
- >Also the 32 million requested was not to "get started". It was for the entire
- >satellite. This did not of course cover the other costs such as the launch
- >or operations.
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- The $30M in question was first-year funding to get Griffin's entire effort
- started; this was to include the beginnings of the mapper project, which
- would end up costing $30M or so for the spacecraft proper.
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- Griffin didn't get it.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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