Nuclear probe to watch Jovian moons

its getting way crowded out here with space related topics but here is one again because news keeps going.
www.msnbc.com...

"ALMOST A DECADE AWAY
JIMO won�t launch until at least 2011. On Monday, scientists at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union briefed reporters on the mission�s progress.
The spacecraft would be the first in a series of robotic NASA probes that rely on uranium-fueled fission reactors to generate large amounts of electricity. While probes such as Galileo and Cassini have made do with hundreds of watts of electricity, Jimo might have thousands of watts to power its thrusters and instruments, said Torrence Johnson of NASA�s Jet Propulsion Laboratory."

cool article

Why does it take them so long to do anything at NASA?! 2011?!! Pshaw!

If this was some machine that killed people more efficiently, I bet they'd have it built and deployed in no time....

[Edited on 12/10/2003 by Flinx]

simple there is no money made in space what good can exploiting space provide a company.No gold, silver, diamonds in space or oil. If there was evidence then there be mine shafts on the moon. They rather spend money on defense( killing machines) becuase those make money now >