It is truly staggering to behold how this space telescope's cost and schedule projections went from costing the same as a space shuttle mission--around half-a-billion dollars with an original launch date in 2007--to now becoming an expenditure exceeding $9 billion with a new launch goal in March 2021.
Smith highlights the dramatic increase in cost and delay of the JWST project.
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