JWST.

A NASA authorization bill that cleared its first legislative hurdle would require NASA to allow the contractors building the JWST, SLS and Orion to spend money currently set aside to cover the potential cost of canceling these big-ticket programs.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...