How NASA’s James Webb Telescope Went $9B Over Budget | True Cost

The James Webb Space Telescope took more than two decades and $10 billion to build. It's one of NASA's most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led to cost overruns and delays. Now it's nearly a million miles from Earth, preparing to capture images of the first stars that formed over 13 billion years ago.

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How NASA’s James Webb Telescope Went $9B Over Budget | True Cost