“Reaching out to the Muslim world” is expensive.
I’m a little surprised. I was sure the Muslim outreach would fix everything.
Whoda thought?
why the hell does a DELAY cost more money? And why a million dollars a day?
Give Tesla $1 Billion and I bet you get a better telescope.
Does this replace the Hubble telescope or do they combine to make the Webb Hubble Space whatever..
This doesn’t reflect well on them.
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.
I have been warning everyone—Never A Straight Answer—going to the Black Budget...
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”.
Typical NASA. Since the 1960’s they’ve been behind schedule and over budgets.
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.
This kind of stuff is OK when you don't have a shiftless, lazy, underclass who pass each and every day of their life lolling about addled on drugs, booze, and sex, just waiting for the next "gubmint" check.
This kind of stuff is OK when your highways and bridges aren't rusting away waiting for the next disaster to happen.
This kind of stuff is OK when you aren't already 20 trillion dollars in debt.
Initial delays occurred because of the ever changing requirements. That’s why it didn’t fly in 2010. After that it has been a clown car. Even though I worked on it I believe even now it should be killed
Shut it down!! Scrap IT!, and NASA!
They named this amazing telescope after some lawyer politician type and passed over the astonishing scientists in astronomy and engineering. Disgraceful. Like naming carriers after Presidents.