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Building an international partnership and preventing mission cancellation

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The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn

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This chapter describes how NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency constructed a mutually beneficial international coalition to develop Cassini-Huygens in the face of U.S. congressional budget reductions and repeated threats of mission cancellation. The chapter also analyzes the fiery relationship that Dan Goldin, one of NASA’s most colorful Administrators, had with the mission and considers the basic question of how best to explore the outer solar system.

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Meltzer, M. (2015). Building an international partnership and preventing mission cancellation. In: The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9_2

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