The MILO team after a reception at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany. (Credit: Antonio Stark)
PHOENIX (ASU PR) — Space is daunting in its enormity and tantalizing in its mysteries, and missions to explore those mysteries are audacious and ambitious. They are also expensive.
Traditionally, governments lead most space science missions. But due to limited budgets, many good ideas never get off the ground. In fact, for every 10 missions proposed to NASA, only one is selected to proceed. Columns of smoke erupt as a rocket launches into the night sky.