[meteorite-list] OT James Webb Space Telescope

[Sterling K. Webb]

The JWST has turned into a long-term project, stretching
out its schedule to later and later launch dates. That is not
a bad thing because the project improves as it does so. The
loss of a year's funding needs to be partly reversed so that the
project and personnel can be maintained until the return
of funding. It wouldn't matter if it took an extra year to complete.
We're already three billion dollars into the job. Of course,
Congress could always simply throw that money away; they
ARE stupid enough. It's not like the SSC which we abandoned
after spending two billion (1993) dollars in it.

Oh, wait! It is exactly like that.


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] OT James Webb Space Telescope








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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