Lessons-learned, lean management halved Mars '98 costs

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed to cut the development cost of its twin Mars '98 missions roughly in half by applying lessons learned from earlier low-cost space probes and adopting streamlined management techniques that freed its engineers to "go engineer," according to the project manager...

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