How NASA Spent $10 Billion On The James Webb Telescope

• The James Webb Space Telescope cost over $10 billion and took more than 20 years to build.
• NASA recently launched it to a point nearly a million miles from Earth.
• It will look for infrared light from stars more than 13 billion years old.

The James Webb Space Telescope took more than two decades and $10 billion to build. It’s one of NASA’s most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led to cost overruns and delays. Now it’s nearly a million miles from Earth, preparing to capture images of the first stars that formed over 13 billion years ago.