Cassini’s Grand Finale
The Cassini Mission to Saturn is drawing to a spectacular close…and, as always, we’re on hand to ask ‘but how much did it cost?’
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The Human Genome Project returned $65 for every $1 invested
Our infographic showing the huge economic return on the Human Genome Project, which sequenced every DNA letter in the human genetic code.
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How much would it cost to go to Venus?
We’ve produced an infographic in collaboration with the EnVision mission to Venus, proposed for ESA’s 2025 launch slot, to put the project into perspective.
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Rosetta infographic translations
Our infographic on the cost of the Rosetta mission, now in your language! Čeština, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Magyar, Polski, Suomi, and more!
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How much does it cost to land on a comet?
On 12th November 2014, the space probe Rosetta’s lander Philae landed on a comet. We’ve crunched the numbers to find the cost of making spaceflight history.
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Why Nobel prizes do (and don’t) matter
Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the Higgs boson. Why does such research merit public funding?