> this project being fourteen years behind schedule and two thousand percent over budget damaged mine.
There is a cogent response to that, as a series of questions.
1 - Which requirements changed?
2 - Which hard science & engineering problems had to be solved, and how trivial, or monumental were they?
3 - Which components failed, or passed testing, requiring rework, or re-engineering?
> Selling a program to taxpayers as a 500 million dollar endeavor and then extracting ten billion dollars from them is the kind of thing that should put people in prison for life.
Initial estimated costs were higher than 500 million. The 500 million number was an NGST estimate, right? I don't think lifecycle costs were ever estimated at 500M, it seems crazy to be that low. Are you sure you are correct on the type of costs you are providing?
There is a cogent response to that, as a series of questions.
1 - Which requirements changed?
2 - Which hard science & engineering problems had to be solved, and how trivial, or monumental were they?
3 - Which components failed, or passed testing, requiring rework, or re-engineering?
> Selling a program to taxpayers as a 500 million dollar endeavor and then extracting ten billion dollars from them is the kind of thing that should put people in prison for life.
Initial estimated costs were higher than 500 million. The 500 million number was an NGST estimate, right? I don't think lifecycle costs were ever estimated at 500M, it seems crazy to be that low. Are you sure you are correct on the type of costs you are providing?