QUESTION: 
If you had a chance to do it again, what would you do differently to be 
able to gather more information?

ANSWER from Robert Mitchell on January 31, 1996: 
This is a very interesting question, partly because the answer depends somewhat 
on whether we were doing it again with '90s capability, or late 70's 
capabilities, like we did this time. Probably the only thing we would design 
differently with 90's capabilities is the main onboard computer. It would be 
very nice to have more memory, which would allow us to return more data. 

Two of our designs didn't work very well with hindsight. One is the big antenna 
to have been used for data return, and the other is the tape recorder intended 
for data storage. We would look very carefully at these two things to see what 
could be done better if we were doing it again. The science instruments that we 
have are excellent, and we probably would do little if anything to change them 
or add to them.