Post-Hubble Trouble Looms
NASA Budget Crisis Threatens Space Telescopes, Sky and Telescope
“Various hurdles seem destined to delay [the James Webb Space Telescope] launch by at least a year, to no earlier than 2012, and threaten to increase the mission’s cost by as much as $1 billion, to more than $3 billion. In response, NASA has asked the project to consider whether a 4-meter telescope with fewer scientific instruments could be flown instead.”
