Nick wrote:
Cost cuts likely to dim space telescope's vision

The James Webb telescope, one of NASA's biggest science projects and
Hubble's successor, is $1 billion over-budget - now many involved
want to reduce its observing power.

The curtailed capability would result from polishing the telescope's
mirrors only once instead of twice - saving $150 million. But some
astronomers are concerned that the cuts could "jeopardise optical
space astronomy in the next decade".

Read the full story he
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7908

Seems a big shame really. Yet another one of those "no bucks = no buck
rogers" cases, seen all too often these days.

AA