Amid political wrangling over the budget last month, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed canceling the James Webb Space Telescope, the follow-on to the Hubble Space Telescope. The program has survived for now, but when the next round of cuts take place this fall, it may well not. If it gets cut, it's over. At the same time, the program is too far along to be rescaled in an attempt to adjust costs. What do you think Congress, and NASA, should do about the project?
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