NASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Space Telescope

via Scientific American - Space on 7/13/11

NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope.

A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week would terminate NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ambitious instrument with a history of delays and cost overruns. But NASA can deliver JWST to space for about the same price as Hubble, Bolden said -- and the science returns would be even greater.

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