re: Phoenix. - Forfeiting a space mission for the sake of another is not a good idea.
I'm sorry, EP, but that's just what you seem to have been aiming at for probabably a decade now when you've been told and shown by most of us here that there is room for planetary NEO detection as well as EVERYTHING else, which means space exploration... the search for knowledge and possibly life.
I'm sure space exploration is right up there with NEO detection, but you don't seem to understand that. Individuals working on different projects.
If you can't deal with that, I feel sorry for you.
