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Most of the time and money was spent on design. If it blows up they should be able to build a second one for a fraction of the time/cost of the first one.

• janmo 5y ago
  In this case, they should have build a half dozen instead of one..
  • oh_sigh 5y ago
    "First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can build two for twice the price?" -Contact
    • chasd00 5y ago
      I was expecting it to read something like “why build two when you can build one for the price of 5”
• oh_sigh 5y ago
  Wasn't a major part of the problem that the design kept changing based on the pushed timeline? So what we are getting now is completely different from what was planned in 1996 to be launched in 2007? If that's the case, and the JWST fails to deploy, we probably wouldn't just build another copy of it - we would build a completely new/reworked space telescope that would take another 25 years to design/launch.