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thalion
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Two things:<br /><br />1.) I understand why they want to favor SOFIA over SIM; unlike the latter mission, SOFIA is an international effort, and at the time it was "cancelled" it was already almost completely finished. <br /><br />2.) With the launch perhaps getting pushed back to 2015-16, I think they should just scrub the mission and go straight to TPF. GAIA will pick up the slack, especially since ESA seems to actually know how to run a railroad. Yet NASA still pretends they're going to get this mission off the ground. I'll believe it when I see it.<br /><br />I've been a fan of the SIM concept for a long time; it's almost more annoying for me to see it stuck in limbo, rather than just cancelled for redundancy to save money for the *real* star: TPF.