GAO says EOS is 'unaffordable' at $33 billion

NASA's planned Earth Observing System (EOS) of satellites and massive ground-based computer networks to gather and analyze long-term global data on climate change will cost an estimated $33 billion through fiscal 2022, the congressional General Accounting Office reported. In "NASA's Earth Observing...

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