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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by bradyd on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:54PM (#43133519)
That is something NASA has already been planning for a while now.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-...

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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by jtgeibel on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:15PM (#43133705)
Yes this has been planned for a while. But accelerating the existing schedule by 4 or 5 years would almost certainly result in a large increase to the existing $843 million dollar contract that Space X has. Elon definitely has a conflict of interest here.
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