The $6 billion James Webb Space Telescope appears to be on the chopping block for the current Congress, despite the fact that the Hubble won't last more than another year or two and much of the money on JWST has already been spent (the mirrors have already been polished, for example.)

The House Appropriations Committee proposed Wednesday to kill the James Webb Space Telescope, the crown jewel of NASA’s astronomy plans for the next two decades.

This would be roughly the equivalent of killing the Hubble in 1987.

As I said in the shuttle thread, its kind of shortsighted (haha no pun), US needs to keep pace with science.

Oh bother.

 

Yes, lets worsen ourselves in the scientific field.

If anyone has their Congressperson on the House Appropriations committee, you still have a shot at making your voice heard.

Republicans

 

* Harold Rogers, Kentucky, Chairman

* C.W. Bill Young, Florida

* Jerry Lewis, California

* Frank R. Wolf, Virginia

* Jack Kingston, Georgia

* Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey

* Tom Latham, Iowa

* Robert B. Aderholt, Alabama

* Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri

* Kay Granger, Texas

* Michael K. Simpson, Idaho

* John Abney Culberson, Texas

* Ander Crenshaw, Florida

* Denny Rehberg, Montana

* John R. Carter, Texas

* Rodney Alexander, Louisiana

* Ken Calvert, California

* Jo Bonner, Alabama

* Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio

* Tom Cole, Oklahoma

* Jeff Flake, Arizona

* Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida

* Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania

* Steve Austria, Ohio

* Cynthia M. Lummis, Wyoming

* Tom Graves, Georgia

* Kevin Yoder, Kansas

* Steve Womack, Arkansas

* Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi

 

 

 

Democrats

 

* Norman D. Dicks, Washington

* Marcy Kaptur, Ohio

* Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana

* Nita M. Lowey, New York

* José E. Serrano, New York

* Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut

* James P. Moran, Virginia

* John W. Olver, Massachusetts

* Ed Pastor, Arizona

* David E. Price, North Carolina

* Maurice D. Hinchey, New York

* Lucille Roybal-Allard, California

* Sam Farr, California

* Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Illinois

* Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania

* Steven R. Rothman, New Jersey

* Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., Georgia

* Barbara Lee, California

* Adam B. Schiff, California

* Michael M. Honda, California

* Betty McCollum, Minnesota

 

Note...Viscloskey and Jackson Jr. are in the Chicago Area and on there.

Draft Senate budget still includes JWST.

If anyone has their Congressperson on the House Appropriations committee, you still have a shot at making your voice heard.

 

 

Note...Viscloskey and Jackson Jr. are in the Chicago Area and on there.

 

i sent them a message asking that they continue to fund this

Edited September 17, 201114 yr by mr_genius