Jan 25 1990
From The Space Library
The projected cost for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) had soared from an estimated $12 billion to $30 billion dollars, Administration sources announced. It was the largest and most expensive project yet undertaken by NASA. President George Bush had asked the National Academy of Sciences to review the matter and recommend cost reductions.
Lauded by environmental scientists and termed by former astronaut Sally Ride as a "mission to planet Earth" the plan called for putting platforms, launched by Titan 4 rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base M California, into polar orbit. Each platform would carry 10 sophisticated scientific instruments that could send 10 trillion bytes of data daily. The first EOS platform, said NASA, would not be in orbit until 1998. (LA Times, Jan 26/90)
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