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NASA Again Delays Launch of Troubled Webb Telescope (nytimes.com)
In a blow to NASA's prestige and its budget, America's next great space telescope has been postponed again. From a report: NASA announced on Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope, once scheduled to be launched into orbit around the sun this fall, will take three more years and another billion dollars to complete. A report delivered to NASA by an independent review board estimated that the cost of the troubled Webb telescope would now be $9.66 billion, and that it would not be ready to launch until March 30, 2021.
Duct-tape an AR-15 onto it, spray on a camo paint job, and call it a SPACE FORCE unmanned recon ship. Funding guaranteed!
(Of course that could have dire consequences, but doesn't everything these days?)
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Why don't they take my recommendation and build a space factory and use that to build the telescope? They could mine asteroids to get the raw material. That would save us from having to build it on Earth and deliver it to space. It would already be there! We could then reassign those factories to build other useful things.