Comment by dd8601fn

I don’t think the debt has much to do with it, but I’m annoyed by the opportunity cost.

Put another way, I’m pretty sick and tired of planing 30 year long missions, with all the money an engineering and human resources, for rocks.

It was almost certainly not going to tell us conclusively about past life on mars. And if it could, let humans collect it.

The next person who suggests an $11B mission for rocks should get smacked with a yardstick.