Bummer!
Does anyone have Bill Gates' phone number?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/07/canadian-developed-space-telescope-nixed-by-u-s-congress/
Canadian developed space telescope nixed by U.S. Congress
By Amy Chung and Max Harrold
OTTAWA — Space researchers were reeling Thursday over a decision in the U.S.
Congress to axe funding for the James Webb Space Telescope — a Canadian and
European joint effort with NASA that would peer deeper into space.
Canada has earmarked $147 million for the project.
The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice and Science approved a yearly spending bill earlier in the day that
includes no money for the JWST — the successor to the Earth-orbiting Hubble
Telescope that was launched in 1990.
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