Reducing Space Mission Cost is the first complete treatment of the technology, process, and problems in the most critical areas of modern spaceflight. The demand to reduce cost is unrelenting. This text addresses all aspects of this problem, including: technology and processes for reducing cost; cost reduction in mission engineering, spacecraft design, manufacture, launch, and operations;impleme ntation methods and problems; the price of reducing cost; and case studies of what works in practice in science missions, interplanetary probes, communications spacecraft, and test and applications missions. Beginning on the inside front cover, the book provides real cost data on a variety of missions, systems, and subsystems, and challenges traditional methods, yet recognizes that all space programs are run to minimize cost within the rules under which they are built and flown. This book is a follow-on to the now standard text and reference, "Space Mission Analysis and Design", also edited by Drs. Wertz and Larson. It is aimed at professionals, students, and managers in astronautics or space sciences and managers or scientists involved in space experiments.