Posted by tourdemars to Budget at May 2, 2000 12:00 PM

They plan to visit Mars, Mercury, even Jupiter's icy moon Europa, but the world's space scientists acknowledged Tuesday they will have to do it on a budget. Influenced by NASA's controversial "cheaper-faster-better" philosophy, astronomers gathered for a meeting on low-cost missions around the solar system where the presentations occasionally sounded more like management-speak than science.