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Published online 15 January 2008 | Nature 451, 228-229 (2007) | doi:10.1038/451228a
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Funding edict for mission has NASA over a barrel
Planet-hunting telescope cost could hold back other space projects.
Astronomers in the United States are up in arms after Congress told NASA that it must spend $60 million next year building a controversial planet-hunting telescope. NASA says the money, nearly three times the $22 million it had earmarked for the project, will have to be siphoned from the budgets of other missions.
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