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Usually governments have some kind of plan how much they want to spend on science. A big, but ultimately useless project can kill the funding for a lot of other research.


Yes, but this is NASA's flagship mission. It's inevitably going to get special treatment from congress.


Still it means that other more useful research will likely not get funded by congress. These big hype projects can do a lot of harm for everyone else.




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