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NASA Program Costs: Space Missions Require Substantially More Funding Than Initially Estimated

NSIAD-93-97 Published: Dec 31, 1992. Publicly Released: Feb 04, 1993.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) historical experience at estimating space program costs.

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