NASA's Big Telescope Avoids Death-by-Budget-Cut

coondoggie writes "NASA's most ambitious and highly over-budget space projects, the James Webb Space Telescope has apparently been spared the budgetary axe. The US Senate Committee on Appropriations has approved about $530 million of NASA's $17.9 billion budget to 'enable a 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.'"

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Re:Crisis in Economy and Waste of Means

[werepants]

Hmm - cut NASA's budget and layoff a bunch of engineers? How will that help? Instead, maybe we can support the middle class with money obtained by raising taxes (oh noes!) on things we want to discourage anyways - hedge fund microtransactions, for example.