Zurbuchen: Avoidable James Webb Space Telescope mistakes cost taxpayers $800 million
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen · #108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics · Apr 6, 2021 · at 1:00:50
Former NASA Science Mission Directorate head Thomas Zurbuchen discusses severe management failures and cost overruns during the assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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“During that time, as well as the year before, this team was so, had such challenges that it was making mistakes that cost the taxpayer of the United States, eight hundred million dollars. The mistakes themselves cost six hundred million dollars because of lack of focus, because of lack of cohesion in the team, stupid mistakes of the type that frankly, I would have kicked out undergrads out of my university lab if they made them.”
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