In the wake of the proposed cancellation, NASA's deputy administrator spoke about the value that the Webb telescope would have to NASA and the scientific community, and the agency's commitment to see the project launched within this decade.
We look forward to working with both houses of Congress to ensure we have a robust space exploration program and narrow America’s human spaceflight gap." "NASA's budget submission already reflects tough decisions required in these difficult fiscal times and it still supports every element of the president's vision and the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010. "We still have a long way to go with budget deliberations for Fiscal Year 2012," NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown said in a statement from the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Most recently, a revamped budget and technology plan estimated that JWST could launch by 2018. A panel investigation in November 2010 found that the project had overrun its cost by $1.5 billion, and blamed the troubles largely on mismanagement. The draft legislation pulls the plug on funding for the JWST, a project the subcommittee described as being plagued by cost overruns and poor management.Ĭonstruction of the telescope has faced hurdles, including budgetary woes and delays to its targeted launch date. Under the proposal announced on July 6, NASA would receive $16.8 billion in funding, which is $1.6 billion less than last year and $1.9 billion below President Barack Obama's 2012 request for the agency.
The next-generation telescope is a follow-up to the 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, with JWST exploring deep-space phenomena from distant galaxies to nearby planets and stars. The $6.5 billion James Webb Space Telescope, named after a former administrator of NASA, is an infrared observatory designed to peer farther back into the universe's history than ever before. "It has the potential to transform astronomy even more than the Hubble Space Telescope did, and it will serve thousands of astronomers in the decades ahead. Telescope and a star in the sky, fl Stock Illustrations by serdarduran 9 / 1,113 Looking Through Telescope Stock Illustrations by LumaxArt2D 12 / 677 Telescope on the grass Under the Stars Stock Illustration by pockygallery 12 / 207 Telescope Man Clipart by lenm 5 / 696 Businessman Holding Looking Telescope Woodcut Stock Illustration by patrimonio 15 / 308 Stars Clip Art by IgorKovalchuk 7 / 87 telescope on tripod Stock Illustration by robertasch 3 / 622 Telescope and Comet Drawings by Xochicalco 8 / 1,825 Yellow telescope Stock Illustration by maximus2566 3 / 274 Telescope Kid Stock Illustrations by lenm 2 / 302 telescope / spyglass Drawings by YuliaGlam 3 / 133 Telescope and space Drawing by njaj 7 / 113 Looking Through A Telescope Clipart by LumaxArt2D 4 / 486 telescope and stars Drawings by teshimine 7 / 314 Telescope Stock Illustration by smoki 1 / 32 comic cartoon telescope Drawings by lineartestpilot 1 / 54 cartoon telescope Drawing by lineartestpilot 1 / 117 Astronomer with telescope print Drawings by macrovector 2 / 299 Telescope On Tripod Stock Illustrations by NesaCera 1 / 139 A man looking through a telescope Stock Illustration by sparkstudio 1 / 58 Looking Through Binoculars Clipart by LumaxArt2D 12 / 1,358 Telescope Stock Illustration by alextrim 2 / 70 Outlook Stock Illustration by abluecup 3 / 147 Blue Telescope Drawing by maximus2566 3 / 505 Telescope person concept Stock Illustration by Krisdog 2 / 103 A telescope Drawings by colematt 3 / 66 Weatherv."JWST will lay the foundation on which a better understanding of the early universe will be built," Debra Elmegreen, president of the American Astronomical Society, said in a statement.
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