Let's hope that sanity prevails - 2.5 million sounds like a very reasonable amount for a major scientific facility. BTW, back in 1966 Jodrell Bank intercepted and released the first lunar surface images from the Soviet Luna 9 probe. They used a newspaper facsimile machine supplied by one of the newspapers and got the first images out before the official Soviet version.
Regards,
Darryl M.
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