re: #309 Rightwingconspirator

Looks like you did more reading than I did.
What is that thing going to cost to finish, and what if they shelve it for a fiscal year and then finish it?That has happened to satellite programs before.

I’ve seen estimates around a billion and a half more needed to finish it, and about 5 billion spent so far. It would be several orders of magnitude better than Hubble, and possibly allow us our first glimpses at the birth of the universe.

These numbers I tossed out are approximately correct, but I didn’t take the time to look them up again. I’m going from memory.