Posted on 06/28/2018 1:06:27 PM PDT by Yossarian
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s next-generation space telescope has been delayed yet again at a staggering cost of $1 million a day.
For the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement Wednesday for the James Webb Space Telescope. The observatory will now fly no earlier than 2021; until last fall, it was on the books for a 2018 launch.
The telescope’s overall cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. Development cost alone will exceed the $8 billion cap set by Congress by more than $800 million and require reauthorization.
An independent review board cites worker error and embedded hardware problems for much of the escalating costs and delays.
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Maybe the worker got this confused with NASCAR's new lug nut tightening rules.
-PJ
This kind of stuff is OK when you don't have a shiftless, lazy, underclass who pass each and every day of their life lolling about addled on drugs, booze, and sex, just waiting for the next "gubmint" check.
This kind of stuff is OK when your highways and bridges aren't rusting away waiting for the next disaster to happen.
This kind of stuff is OK when you aren't already 20 trillion dollars in debt.
Initial delays occurred because of the ever changing requirements. That’s why it didn’t fly in 2010. After that it has been a clown car. Even though I worked on it I believe even now it should be killed
WTF costs a million dollars a day ?
Contractor ineptitude which ‘has to be paid’ by the taxpayer. Contractor(s) AND the bureaucrats who are responsible need to be dumped for further projects.
Remember the days when government contractors had to post a bond so that they paid if they were late (and sometime a bonus when early).
Shut it down!! Scrap IT!, and NASA!
They named this amazing telescope after some lawyer politician type and passed over the astonishing scientists in astronomy and engineering. Disgraceful. Like naming carriers after Presidents.
No, they are completely different instruments.
Better viewing through the dust.
I remember reading about some of the SDI (ballistic missile defense) testing failures. A great many of them had little to do with the difficulty of intercepting something that small moving that fast. Instead, they were “stupid” problems, like “arms in launch bay did not retract”. And worse.
It was almost as if the tech was basically there (it is / was), but nobody bothers to check the basic stuff. God help us...
I hear ya.
That’s my big worry with our military weapons — that after decades of lax standards in our schools and society, the weapons won’t work not because the design was flawed, but because the people building and manning them are incompetent.
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