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Space Policy Edition: JWST and the politics of mega-science (with Robert Smith)

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Hubble Project

The webb was conceived as this anti hubble, in terms of how they would pursue it. It's going to have light weight i mirrors. And its being where infered observatories like herschel and plank have also gone. They had these somewhat artificial, self understood cost limits of 800 million initially or one point two billion.

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