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

Posted by samzenpus on from the saved-by-the-buck dept.

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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  1. Re:If I May by IICV · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    More like fucking bullshit. If they'd seen fit to allocate that 500 million to Nasa in 2010, we could have had the James Webb in 2016 for a total of $6.5 billion.

    The 11 billion extra you're seeing here is so Nasa can dig themselves out of the hole that Congress pushed them in to - if you don't pay vital employees they leave and take millions of dollars woth of practical experience with them, and if you don't fund important parts manufacturers they close down and you have to pay billions to get them started again.