NASA - where next in outer planet missions.

[PB666]

http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-narrows-its-list-of-planetary-targets-1.18482?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20151001&spMailingID=49675374&spUserID=Njk3NjE5NzEwNjES1&spJobID=780102082&spReportId=NzgwMTAyMDgyS0

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piggy backing this onto the post, its also future of NASAs SETI

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/09/nasas-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-in-the-milky-way-the-next-ten-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy+--Great+Discoveries+Channel%3A+Sci%2C+Space%2C+Tech.%29

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and this op ed about Mars exploration

http://www.spacetera.com/space-exploration/race-to-mars-part-1

[benzman]

NASA has no incentive to keep costs down, nor any incentive to stretch out the use of their expensively-developed technologies. Whether the SLS costs $500 million per launch or $2 billion per launch, as a government agency, it knows that more funding will always be available if necessary.

Can't agree with that statement.

[fredinno]

I disagree- NASA tends to be ambitious and very conservative (unlike SpaceX, raising costs) but they can also keep costs down- sometimes out of necessity, if necessary. The funding needed is also not always available. In fact, more times than not, it's exactly the opposite. If funding was there, Shuttle would have actually been fully reusable.

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The article is about discovery missions...