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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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What Happened With Hubble Space Telescope?

Early numbers have a very big influence on the development of the project. Low initial cost then puts pressure on the reserves, which are just not adequate. If you can't do the work that you want to do in a kind of rational fashion, then work gets pushed into future years. And i think also another structural issue is just how the budget is decided on this yearly basis. Also there's a preference with the office of management and budget to give flat amounts of money over a certain period. But if you then flatte out the budget, you're not following that kind of a profile. So that puts extra pressure on so if you are able to give the project manager the money the project

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