JWST stowed
Workers at a Northrop Grumman facility put NASA's James Webb Space Telescope into its launch configuration in May ahead of a final round of environmental tests.

NASA hopes to keep the costs of additional delays in the James Webb Space Telescope within the program’s existing reserves and thus avoid asking Congress for additional funding.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...