[meteorite-list] OT James Webb Space Telescope

From: Mark Ford <mark.ford_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:48:53 +0000
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Because it's based on expensive spy satellite technology!

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From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Yinan Wang
Sent: 08 July 2011 08:07
To: Sterling K. Webb
Cc: meteoritelist meteoritelist
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT James Webb Space Telescope

Not to be critical of space development, but can someone give a basic
cost breakdown of why this has cost $3,000,000,000.00 so far?

-Yinan

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Sterling K. Webb
<sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> Oh, wait! It is exactly like that.
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> Sterling K. Webb
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> Does anyone have Bill Gates' phone number?
> http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/
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> http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/
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> Canadian developed space telescope nixed by U.S. Congress
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> 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.
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> Canada has earmarked $147 million for the project.
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> 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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