[yosito]

> You don't need to be a rocket scientist to learn about and understand data egress costs. Which left The Register wondering how an agency capable of sending stuff into orbit or making marvelously long-lived Mars rovers could also make such a dumb mistake.

I used to work very closely with this department at NASA. Without saying too much, the short answer is "tenured government employees more concerned about job security than the success of the project" is how an agency could make such dumb mistakes.