James Webb Space Telescope image in clean room

Is the James Webb Space Telescope "Too Big to Fail?"

Dec. 29, 2017

From Scientific American: Any way you slice it, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the boldest, highest-stakes gambles in the space agency’s storied history. Just building and testing the observatory has proved to be a dauntingly complex technological enterprise, pushing the observatory’s astronomical price tag to nearly...