# Cost overruns....

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**The James Webb Space Telescope** : From Wikipedia: “The telescope was originally estimated to cost $1.6 billion, but the cost estimate grew throughout the early development and had reached about $5 billion by the time the mission was formally confirmed for construction start in 2008. By October 2019, the estimated cost of the project had reached $10 billion for launch in 2021.”

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