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# The Breaking Point
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/jpl-and-the-space-age/episode/the-breaking-point-ju8nvu/
- Published: 2025-08-04T19:45:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T07:35:18.000Z
- Description: The demise of two missions and the abrupt end of NASA’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper” era.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: JPL and the Space Age, Season 1, Episode 9, #ZZZ_Episode_d451af8a-e3e4-49fb-9af7-ec9eefd83673, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_1fa9cd81-09f7-41c4-9fac-1f45fe7b748d, #v1.16

“The Breaking Point” tells the story of the demise of these two missions and the abrupt end of NASA’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper” era.