NASA sub called me here in H’ville for an interview as a Test Engineer on the SLS effort. Politely said no. It ain’t the same NASA I grew up with during Apollo.
Instead of operating as originally planned, the James Webb Space Telescope will now operate as a communication satellite broadcasting the Koran as an outreach to Muslims, as well as to study the global warming impact of Christians, guns, and white people.
SLS — Space Launch System for Nasa. Heavy lift space launch system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
If you budget a large program for the Bureaucracy, it will cost double the estimates and possibly double the time of development.
No matter how well you plan, budget and execute a plan it will always cost more, take longer and be twice as difficult.
Kinda like an euridation of Murphy’s law.
“”James Webb and SLS are NASA jobs programs & What is to be done.”
This is not the Virginia senator who betrayed his military brethren, Scots Irish ancestry, became a democrat and voted for Obamacare? Not that puke?
Only captured Nazis can be real Rocket Scientists?
NASA needs to be cashiered.
JWST was good to me.
That said the Webb is an albatross. It has sucked money and personnel out of useful projects that had a real goal.
Just remember if anything goes south once it is in place there is no way to fix it.. Webb is set to be placed at L2 ....no way to get there