{"id":553,"date":"2006-01-22T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2006-01-22T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T16:15:59","slug":"how-expensive-really-is-a-space-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/how-expensive-really-is-a-space-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"How Expensive (Really) Is A Space Probe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dr. Brownlee said the $212 million cost of the 10-year Stardust project was a bargain considering the amount of knowledge it should provide about the origins of the solar system and Earth. &#8220;The way I like to look at it,&#8221; he said with a laugh, &#8220;it&#8217;s the same cost as a well-paid baseball player over a 10-year period.&#8221;<br \/>\nLink:<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/20\/science\/space\/20stardust.html?ex=1295413200&#038;en=3d2b662a1d3efeac&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">NY Times<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not quite sure what that says about the wages of a Baseball star, but it does put some persepctive on the subject&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Brownlee said the $212 million cost of the 10-year Stardust project was a bargain considering the amount of knowledge it should provide about the origins of the solar system and Earth. &#8220;The way I like to look at it,&#8221; he said with a laugh, &#8220;it&#8217;s the same cost as a well-paid baseball player over a 10-year period.&#8221; Link: Link: NY Times. Not quite sure what that says about the wages of a Baseball star, but it does put some persepctive on the subject&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}