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7. National Research Council, An Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs, The
National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2006.
8. National Research Council, Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science
Missions, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010.
9. National Research Council, Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science
Missions, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010, p. 38.
10. Note that the CATE costs for these missions presented in Appendix C include launch-vehicle
costs. While some CATE estimates (minus launch-vehicle costs) exceed the recommended $1.0 billion
cost cap, all were judged by the committee to be close enough to the cap that a PI and team could adjust
their scope so that they could fit within the cap.
11. National Research Council, Opening New Frontiers in Space: Choices for the Next New
Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2008.
12. This is the cost of MAX-C only, not the cost of the full Mars Sample Return campaign.
Also, the estimate is for the MAX-C mission as currently conceived; below we recommend reductions in
scope to keep the cost below $2.5 billion FY2015.
13. Version without solar-electric propulsion stage.
14. Jupiter Europa Orbiter Mission Study 2008: Final Report—The NASA Element of the
Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Applied Physics
Laboratory, Laurel, MD, and European Space Agency, Paris, France, 30 January 2009.
15. Ben Ari et al., National Security and the Commercial Space Sector, 2010.
16. National Research Council, Radioisotope Power Systems: An Imperative for Maintaining
U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2010.
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