Oler wrote: “SLS will die, WEbb changed.”

whoever replied:
Yet another idiotic statement from RGO. JWST will not go through a design change due to budget pressures. It is a very specific design for a very specific application that passed CDR more than 16 months ago. They are now fabricating flight hardware and descope options are no longer an option (other than mission duration post-launch).

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cost on Webb are going up monthly. they might be putting together hardware but they have no idea what that hardware will cost…and as long as cost are going up just less then 1 billion a year…they will find they get to build less telescope if they build one at all. I stand by my statement.

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Robert G. Oler

Yet another idiotic statement from RGO. JWST will not go through a design change due to budget pressures. It is a very specific design for a very specific application that passed CDR more than 16 months ago. They are now fabricating flight hardware and descope options are no longer an option (other than mission duration post-launch).

Stephen Smith wrote: “They’re going to hold CCDev hostage until they get their SLS pork.”

This would be the Democrat-led Senate porkers correct? The same group (headed by Babs) that will make sure the white elephant called JWST also gets full funding despite cost increases of over $6.25B or 342% of its 2009 cost estimate and will now likely gut most of the other remaining and near-term SMD missions? The same Democrat-led Senate porkers that have been in the majority and continued to feed the JWST trough since 2007? Those porkers? Sounds like the current Senate majority needs to be made the minority ASAP so we can cut the pork! Given we are borrowing $0.42 for every dollar spent, this can’t be done soon enough.

And you also predicted SLS and Webb would be canceled by October. Nostradamus you are not. Now keep your pie hole shut.

Pathetic.

SLS will die, WEbb changed.

I think it’s pretty clear that the Congressional porkers will sacrifice everything else before they let anyone touch their precious SLS.

Quoting from the Florida SPACErePORT for November 2:

The Senate has approved $500 million for “commercial spaceflight activities,” but with a caveat that $192.6 million cannot be spent until “the NASA Administrator certifies to the Committees on Appropriations, in writing, that NASA has published the required notifications of NASA contract actions implementing the acquisition strategy for the heavy lift launch vehicle system.” This move is intended to encourage NASA to move quickly on heavy-lift development. (11/2)

They’re going to hold CCDev hostage until they get their SLS pork.

Austerity is NOT what this country needs.

Poignant investment in new technologies and creation of new industries is what is needed (as well as tariff controls). NASA is the best example of the success USA achieves when smart investment overcomes financial fears.

The sky is NOT falling in.”

yes, and SLS should be first on the chopping block..

SLS will die, WEbb changed. RGO

Yeah that will certainly pay for SLS/MPCV of your dreams…