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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 Super Coliding Super Conductor - The Huble Space Telescope

In the early nineties, during a wave of budget cutting, this is the same period in which the space station narrowly avoided the same fate. So these large projects can be risky to do. You put all your eggs in one basket. You hope for the best. And j w s t is now at l to its fully deployed. Its instruments are turned on. It is aligning its mirrors right now. Everything seems to be going well. We talk about some of the lessons learned from previous attempts, for example, the huble space telescope,. In terms of how they put together and work to support a mission likej w s t that really does, politically speaking, have to succeed

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