NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut

Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by nickff on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:22PM (#43132471)

SLS has been around the moon and back; that mission was equivalent to an unmanned Apollo VIII. Going around the moon is much easier than landing on it and coming back.

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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by kelnos on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:39PM (#43133934)

Sure. And not-quite-getting-into-orbit is easier -- significantly easier -- than going around the moon.

What's your point, really, aside from nitpicking, when "orbiting the moon" is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of the statement "been to the moon and back"?

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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by nickff on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:35PM (#43135848)

I think the difference between the US lunar exploration program and the Soviet one qualifies as more than mere nitpicking.

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