Executioner's Song: Which Missions Live or Die?

[maintdir]

Article by Leonard David.<br /><br />Great article Leonard, but is there any reason that any of the current missions should die? If NASA wants to end any current mission it should first explore the idea of selling the mission to an educational or scientific institution. Or sell the mission to the lowest bidder. The missions could be considered government surplus and sold. The missions would continue to operate only under private control. The scientific data would still be collected and available to the scientific community (maybe for a nominal fee this is private enterprise). There should be no reason to end any mission unless there is a lack of interest or hardware failure.

 

[dan_casale]

Execellent post. I believe there are several satellites (Al Gore had one built), that are waiting for launches. Lets start the bidding at .....