Editorial: Identify JWST’s Bill Payers, editorial, Space News “… the Space Launch System, which per the House and Senate spending bills is slated to receive nearly $2 billion next year, […]
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House Appropriators Ask NASA For Webb Cost Info (Again)
Letter from Rep. Frank Wolf to OMB Director Jacob Lew Regarding James Webb Space Telescope “In the coming weeks, the House and Senate will sit down to negotiate final appropriations […]
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Webb Community Webinar: Happy Talk and Denial
James Webb Space Telescope Q&A Session: A Town Hall Webinar Astronomers Plead for Space Telescope’s Life, Wired “Initially estimated to cost approximately $1 billion in 1996, recent calculations for the […]
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Senate Approps Cuts NASA Budget, Boosts Webb
FY2012 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee Mark – NASA Excerpt * The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is funded at $17.9 billion, a reduction of $509 million or 2.8 […]
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Will The Webb Money Sponge Drain Funds From The Rest of NASA?
Webb telescope gets rescued in the Senate, Nature “At the subcommittee meeting today, the Senator said the beleaguered mission would get $530 million in 2012 — much more than the […]
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How Much of Webb is Actually "Complete"? (Update)
JWST Supporters to Make Their Case As Controversy Grows, Space Policy Online “A NASA spokesman told SpacePolicyOnline.com on July 28 via email that $3.5 billion will have been spent on […]
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Webb Team Fights Back (Update)
James Webb Space Telescope Q&A Session: A Town Hall Webinar “During the webinar, presenters from NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the astronomical community will describe the current state […]
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AAS Memo "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
AAS Members Decadal Priorities and Fiscal Realities Informational Email 2011-10 “NASA and NSF receive input from many formal agency, interagency, and National Academies advisory committees about how to allocate their […]
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Webb: A No-win Scenario in Astrophysics?
Space science caught in a Webb, Space Review “Speaking at a workshop on suborbital research held last Wednesday at NASA Goddard, Webster Cash, an astronomer at the University of Colorado, […]
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Webb Costs Are Fragmenting The Space & Planetary Science Community
Planetary scientists: Webb telescope not too big to fail, Nature “The internecine warfare among NASA scientists over the fate of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun. The rising […]