Yes, success, but the era of flagship missions maybe drawing to a close.
I'm happy for the engineering and science team
working on the Messenger mission.
But future unmanned flagship missions to the planets, moons, asteroids, etc. may be drawing
to a close for both JPL, AHUAPL.
The NASA administrator for planetary missions
says that the reduced NASA budget for ambitious
unmanned deepspace missions will drop from 1.5 billion to 1.2 billion per year by 2016.
The Europa Orbiter project is hte first to feel the axe.