• Dragonfly gets the green light

    From The Running Man@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 22 16:49:41 2024
    <https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-dragonfly-mission-despite-doubled-costs/>

    What do we get in return for spending $3.2 billion? A drone flying around on Titan snapping vacation pics?

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  • From Alain Fournier@21:1/5 to The Running Man on Tue Apr 23 10:33:27 2024
    On 2024-04-22 12:49 p.m., The Running Man wrote:
    <https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-dragonfly-mission-despite-doubled-costs/>

    What do we get in return for spending $3.2 billion? A drone flying around on Titan snapping vacation pics?

    Typical vacation pics are something like pictures of the Grand Canyon
    one could have gotten for free off the internet. The pics dragon fly
    will take are not available anywhere.

    I think Dragonfly is a cool mission.


    Alain Fournier

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