That $300 stack of the cheapest thin paper was last semester. The online code you need for class is void, and the questions won’t match the answer key.

These programs require continuous funding. The probe went to Jupiter. The scientist and listening stations back on earth still have to run to receive the data.

It is usually due to “budget cuts” as the easiest way to kill a project is to defend it.

Juno Jupiter flyby

Maven mission to mars

New horizons kbo flyby

Terra mission-earth science satellite

Aqua mission -earth science satellite

DSCOVR

SLS-which may actually be a bad program but is a good example of the political issues with NASA vs senate.

NASA is too beholden to politics… You can’t do 7 year builds and missions when the Senate flips every 4 years and has to kill everything the other side did on principle that it has a D or R attached to it. Everything is political.