Panel demands accountability from Northrop Grumman for Webb telescope delays, overruns

The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology met Wednesday to hear NASA's pleas for reauthorization of the Webb telescope after the agency announced last month it would need an extra $800 million and until 2021 to complete telescope development. This request pushes the agency past the $8 billion development cap set by Congress in 2011, which means the project must be reauthorized in the agency's 2019 fiscal year budget.