Houston ... we have a problem.
in a news release about the Mars Sample Return mission earlier this year, lawmakers were already balking at the gargantuan costs of the pursuit., Gramling said that there are a number of factors behind the mission's swelling costs.
"We’re seeing growth in long-lead times, which means we’re having to execute contracts earlier," the mission director said. "We’re seeing differences coming back in cost beyond what we’ve experienced in the past or beyond what our in-house estimates suggest they should cost. And our supplier base is contracted.
"It's the same scope as Webb in terms of cost but a much, much narrower scope in terms of science," Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at Washington University, told
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