Senate approves funding of Webb telescope
NOV 02, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025681
Baltimore City Paper : Yesterday the US Senate approved full funding of the James Webb Space Telescope through its 2018 launch. As reported earlier , the JWST project, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, has been plagued with cost overruns and delays. Although the Republican-dominated House of Representatives had proposed cutting its funding , Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) has proven its biggest advocate and pushed hard to keep it in the Senate’s version of the budget. “The Webb Telescope supports 1200 jobs and will lead to the kind of innovation and discovery that have made America great,” she said. “It will inspire America’s next generation of scientists and innovators that will have the new ideas that lead to new products and new jobs.” The next hurdle will be keeping JWST funding alive as part of reconciling the Senate and House versions of the 2012 budget.
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