NASA's first Discovery mission on time, budget for launch

NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, the first built under the U.S. space agency's "faster-better-cheaper" Discovery program, is on schedule and under budget going into its launch to the asteroid 433 Eros next week. Total cost of the one-off science mission will be $210 million...

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