NASA's Office of Space Science announces the opportunity to conduct planetary science investigations through Discovery Program space flight missions that meet the goals of planetary system exploration.

The Discovery Program is designed to accomplish frequent, high quality planetary science investigations within a cost cap. The Program seeks to contain total mission cost and to improve performance through innovative, streamlined, and efficient management, engineering, and operational approaches.

Discovery Mission investigations shall be launched on Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELVs) no later than December 31, 2009. The total NASA OSS cost through the end of the primary mission shall not exceed $360M.

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