Lamar Smith: “This bill helps to ensure the long-term stability of the rocket propulsion industry through better coordination and…”

Now that the Independent Review Board has completed its work, we should review the decades-long JWST cost overruns and schedule delays.

As I said yesterday, when government contractors make mistakes, typically no one is held accountable.

We can be confident that he is striving to tackle the program management issues NASA faces, specifically those associated with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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…