{"id":142338,"date":"2022-07-16T20:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-took-more-than-two-decades-and-10-billion-to-build"},"modified":"2022-07-16T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:49:22","slug":"the-james-webb-space-telescope-took-more-than-two-decades-and-10-billion-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-took-more-than-two-decades-and-10-billion-to-build","title":{"rendered":"The James Webb Space Telescope took more than two decades and $10 billion to build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-took-more-than-two-decades-and-10-billion-to-build2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of NASA\u2019s most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led to cost overruns and delays. Now it\u2019s nearly a million miles from Earth, preparing to capture images of the first stars that formed over 13 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>View insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of NASA\u2019s most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led to cost overruns and delays. Now it\u2019s nearly a million miles from Earth, preparing to capture images of the first stars that formed over 13 billion years ago. View insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}