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Old 24-08-2011, 03:58 PM
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The James Webb

It just keeps getting sadder ...

NASA Estimates $8.7 Billion To Fly Webb

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Managers at NASA replanning the troubled James Webb Space Telescope have concluded it will cost $8.7 billion to finish the observatory in time for a launch in 2018 and operate it at the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point for five years.

The agency says that by the end of fiscal 2011 it will have spent $3.5 billion so far on the telescope, which means another $5.2 billion must be found by the end of the five-year mission following launch in 2018.
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