But critics of the space station argue that NASA's unmanned planetary missions and the deep space probes that track solar phenomena, cosmic background radiation and the violent blasts of supernovae provide far more pure science than the space station ever can.
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SPACEPROGRAM-CLOSING _ DAYTON, Ohio _ Dayton may greet the 100th anniversary of powered flight by losing a key part of the space program it pioneered in the 1960s : nuclear generators and heaters for deep space probes . ( Gaffney, Dayton Daily News ) MOVED.
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Notable deep space probe programs that have employed X band communications include the Viking Mars landers; the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond; the Galileo Jupiter orbiter; the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, the Curiosity rover and the Cassini-Huygens Saturn orbiter.
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Yet at a combined total of $ 235 million, including the $ 30 million Deep Space probes that were attached to the MPL but are also unaccounted for, the two successive failures would be just 1.7 percent of NASA's $ 13.6 billion budget for next year.
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Yet at a combined total of $ 235 million, including the $ 30 million Deep Space probes that were attached to the MPL but are also unaccounted for, the two successive failures would be just 1 . 7 percent of NASA's $ 13 . 6 billion budget for next year.
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He detailed the space shuttle program from its infancy, although he was in Pasadena covering deep space probe Voyager's encounter with Uranus when the shuttle Challenger blew up in January 1986 . " The Washington Post " published a book later that year called " Challengers : The Inspiring Life Stories of the Seven Brave Astronauts of Shuttle Mission 51-L ", with 12 Post reporters contributing.
