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Mistakes delay NASA’s new telescope yet again (James Webb Space Telescope delayed to 2021)
New York Post ^ | 6/28/18 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/28/2018 1:06:27 PM PDT by Yossarian

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s next-generation space telescope has been delayed yet again at a staggering cost of $1 million a day.

For the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement Wednesday for the James Webb Space Telescope. The observatory will now fly no earlier than 2021; until last fall, it was on the books for a 2018 launch.

The telescope’s overall cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. Development cost alone will exceed the $8 billion cap set by Congress by more than $800 million and require reauthorization.

An independent review board cites worker error and embedded hardware problems for much of the escalating costs and delays.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: jameswebb; nasa; spacetelescope
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The James Webb Space Telescope is now eleven years behind schedule and 890% over budget... Whomever was responsible for overseeing this project should be prosecuted!
1 posted on 06/28/2018 1:06:27 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian

“Reaching out to the Muslim world” is expensive.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 1:08:18 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Yossarian

I’m a little surprised. I was sure the Muslim outreach would fix everything.

Whoda thought?


3 posted on 06/28/2018 1:08:59 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Yossarian

why the hell does a DELAY cost more money? And why a million dollars a day?


4 posted on 06/28/2018 1:16:39 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Yossarian

Give Tesla $1 Billion and I bet you get a better telescope.


5 posted on 06/28/2018 1:17:27 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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Does this replace the Hubble telescope or do they combine to make the Webb Hubble Space whatever..


6 posted on 06/28/2018 1:19:21 PM PDT by CA_soon_gone
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To: Yossarian

This doesn’t reflect well on them.


7 posted on 06/28/2018 1:20:38 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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Webb — considered a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope

The Webb/Hubble space telescopes.

The loose and lost nuts and bolts alone were enough to bump the mission into 2021, officials noted. ...

“The complexity and risk cannot be overstated or overestimated,” he said.

Untightened nuts and bolts. If that's "complex," God help us.

8 posted on 06/28/2018 1:21:40 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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I have been warning everyone—Never A Straight Answer—going to the Black Budget...


9 posted on 06/28/2018 1:22:01 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Mr. K

That ignites itself immediately after orbit...............


10 posted on 06/28/2018 1:28:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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Does this replace the Hubble telescope or do they combine to make the Webb Hubble Space whatever..

Webb is far more ambitious than Hubble. Incredible in many ways.

11 posted on 06/28/2018 1:30:34 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Mr. K

It’s the F-35 of telescopes.


12 posted on 06/28/2018 1:36:49 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Donate to Mike Flynn's legal fund: https://mikeflynndefensefund.org/)
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To: Yossarian

Old cartoon posted in a software company where I worked: Guy sticks his head through an office door and says to a programmer, “We got the contract! You start coding and I’ll draw up the specs”.


13 posted on 06/28/2018 1:37:17 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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Typical NASA. Since the 1960’s they’ve been behind schedule and over budgets.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 1:38:49 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: MichaelCorleone

That makes sense to me. It’s just hard to understand how that failed.

/s


15 posted on 06/28/2018 1:52:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Mr. K

They have already given Tesla that much and they haven’t got a better car yet.


16 posted on 06/28/2018 1:58:39 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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Give Tesla $1 Billion and I bet you get a better telescope.

We already give the cockroaches at Tesla well over $1 Billion in subsidies, and all we get out of it are arrogant jerks in luxury cars that I helped pay for, cutting me off in traffic!

17 posted on 06/28/2018 1:59:19 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Ken H

Badda boom!!!!


18 posted on 06/28/2018 2:02:00 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: CA_soon_gone
Does this replace the Hubble telescope (...) Ignoring the joke and using this as an excuse to clarify: The JWST is supposed to supplant Hubble, not replace it. Webb is just an infrared device, compared to the multispectral (infrared-optical-ultraviolet) device that Hubble is.
19 posted on 06/28/2018 2:03:23 PM PDT by Yossarian
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There are procedures and standards to protect against all of these errors....but, when cost and schedule priorities start to flow from Congress to NASA, corners are cut and then the mistakes compound.


20 posted on 06/28/2018 2:14:33 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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