Closing the gap
“How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal.”
Saturn's moon Enceladus peeks over the limb of Dione during a partial occultation, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on September 13, 2008.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, led by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago?
