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Offline neilh

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Re: Dragon Mars Flyby
« Reply #20 on: 05/29/2012 08:20 pm »
Another way to think about things: Would having a functional Dragon already en route to Mars for a flyby mission increase the odds of SpaceX being awarded a contract for a Discovery-class Red Dragon mission? (when are decisions supposed to be made for that, anyways?)
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Offline baldusi

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Re: Dragon Mars Flyby
« Reply #21 on: 05/29/2012 08:38 pm »
Another way to think about things: Would having a functional Dragon already en route to Mars for a flyby mission increase the odds of SpaceX being awarded a contract for a Discovery-class Red Dragon mission? (when are decisions supposed to be made for that, anyways?)
No, you should ask: is the money spent on that mission better than spending it in doing testing and demonstrations to retire risk, and thus up the TRL, to convince NASA that's little risk in actually buying the mission?

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