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The correct utilisation of the tax payer’s money has always been the most passionately debated subject internationally. Particularly, during various deliberates on issues concerning the investment in space technologies, this concern always gets reflected equally for the developed states like the United States and also for the developing states like India.
The cost of London (2012) and Beijing (2008) Olympic was approximately USD$15 billion each and the total cost of Nasa’s Mars Science Laboratory, of which the Mars Curiosity Mission is a part of, is about: US$2.5 billion.
*http://www.captaincynic.com/thread/94243/cost-comparison-mars-curiosity-vs-olympics.htm, accessed on 16 April 2013.
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It has been reported that the cost of the helium for balloon filling was $70,000 and cost of each balloon was $250,000. His space suit coasted $200,000.
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Ronald Wright in 2004 gave a series of lectures in the Massey series on this issue, and he is famous for his work titled A Short History of Progress on the same subject.
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Lele, A. (2014). Cost Contested: Perceptions Versus Reality. In: Mission Mars. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1521-9_8
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