[meteorite-list] OT James Webb Space Telescope

[Pete Pete]

Bummer!

 

Does anyone have Bill Gates' phone number?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/

 

Canadian developed space telescope nixed by U.S. Congress

By Amy Chung and Max Harrold
OTTAWA — Space researchers were reeling Thursday over a decision in the U.S. Congress to axe funding for the James Webb Space Telescope — a Canadian and European joint effort with NASA that would peer deeper into space.
 
Canada has earmarked $147 million for the project.
 
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science approved a yearly spending bill earlier in the day that includes no money for the JWST — the successor to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Telescope that was launched in 1990.
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