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Texan here. Still bitter. Also, when people bitch about James Webb being just sooooo overbudget, I acknowledge their arguments, but putting a price tag on the science we're going to get from that thing just seems so petty... Source: Totally unbiased space industry worker.link to SSC wiki article
Friend's dad was chief administrator on one of two collectors. I feel ya. It basically came down to "space station" or "skookum atom smasher." The senators whose districts benefitted from aerospace won against... Texas. A lot easier to scatter the pork around when you aren't earthbound to Waxahatchie. He's "the dude" for the TMT now, but... yeah. Totally lame.