He even has experience with NASA's next flagship astronomy mission: the $ 8 - billion James Webb Space Telescope, which, after it launches at the end of the decade, will also be managed by the Baltimore institute. (scientificamerican.com)
Before Cash became entangled with starshades, the 63 - year - old scientist had a productive career designing equipment for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, the XMM - Newton observatory and other big - ticket astronomy missions. (discovermagazine.com)
Everitt responds that Gravity Probe B was competitively reviewed numerous times during its development, but he acknowledges that, as a fundamental physics mission, it did not go through the same review process used to select astronomy missions. (scientificamerican.com)