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Webb: Just Send Money

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 15, 2011
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NASA: Extra money needed to launch JWST this decade, Sapceflightnow
“Rick Howard, NASA’s JWST program director, said the agency determined the observatory could launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket as soon as October 2018, but it would require fresh funding. And with the federal government focused on wrangling in debt, a budget increase for the troubled JWST project is unlikely. NASA officials were speaking to the agency’s astrophysics advisory council, a board of senior researchers chartered to provide advice and input in major scientific and programmatic decisions. “To get to [launch] in 2018, it’s going to take a significant amount of new funds,” Howard said.”

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