The Space Review published a brace of excellent articles on the problems experienced by the Mars Science Laboratory. The first deals with the technical challenges, the second with the budgetary challenges. Put together, they provide a good look at the types of problems that occur in large technology development projects.
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These articles are riddled with errors making them only vaguely representative of the actual history.
I hope that you will post examples, especially if the reporting errors would lead to a misunderstanding of the fundamental issues.
I read this like you, and found it a *seriously* flawed account, and let's just say "I was there."
-Alan Stern
These articles provide a reasoned history of the development of MSL. Next up, make it to launch without costing any more $$$$$$
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