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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. Unfortunately not clear where it comes from by JoshuaZ · · Score: 1, Troll

    While the money has been allocated the total NASA budget has not been increased, in fact it has gone down. That means that the money for it is coming from somewhere. This could easily damage other important programs. Until we know exactly where things are going to come from this is a cause for concern. In general, all the sciences are being hit hard right now. The situation seems somewhat similar to Russian roulette with the programs which don't get bullets getting budgets.