After the House voted last summer to cancel the James Webb Space Telescope project, which is vastly over budget and behind schedule, a U. S. Senate subcommittee voted this week to give the project $150 million more than the White House requested.
JWST is to be the follow-up to the Hubble Space Telescope. Just as Hubble has sparked a revolution in our understanding of the universe, the science community insists JWST will lead another revolution. How that factors into the federal debt problem is unclear.
Of course, the full Senate committee, and then the full Senate itself still have to vote on JWST, and if the project survives that it has to get through the reconciliation process, where differences in House and Senate bills are worked through, before finally, possibly, getting to President Obama's desk.
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