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NASA Proposes Ending Voyager
darylb writes "NASA is proposing ending the 28-year old Voyager program, which costs a paltry $4mil per year to operate. One of the two Voyager probes is approaching the edge of what can be thought of as the sun's atmosphere (where the solar wind bumps up against interstellar wind), a place where no probe has gone before. Canceling this project means saving almost nothing compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent so far. The craft will be out of juice by 2015 in any case, so the marginal cost for the extra, invaluable, data would be minimal." From the article: "NASA officials said the possibility of cutting Voyager and several other long-running missions in the Earth-Sun Exploration Division arose in February, when the Bush administration proposed slashing the division's 2006 budget by nearly one-third -- from $75 million to $53 million."
AIN'T IT ALSO FUNNY when a person like you is so ignorant as to not realize that NASA has a better mission planned http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
You know whats even more funny, when a bunch of slashdot nerds try to throw in their own political agenda into what they say while trying to sound completely impartial. Your a bunch of idiots, a new and better probe is coming, Voyager isn't needed anymore.
"Nooooooo your going to kill pathfinder! but its done so much science!! bush adminstration = bad!!(hint 2 new landers called spirit and opportunity coming!)" --- Is what slashdot would be saying if bush was president 7 years ago(or however long ago pathfinder was)