L.M. Prockter et al. LPI / JPL / SwRI / Richard T. Par
So today marks 5 years since the Trident mission—which involved a Voyager 2-type flyby of Neptune and its main moon Triton—was rejected by NASA in favor of two Venus missions for its Discovery program.
Trident was supposed to launch as early as last October and no later than this October. It would've flew past Neptune and Triton in June 2038. What could've been...
Click here to read a full Blog entry on my reaction to Trident's loss in that competition half a decade ago.
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