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NASA's annual spending on the Roman Space Telescope

A line-chart that tracks annual, inflation-adjusted spending on the Roman Space Telescope project and the amount requested by the White House.

The Roman Space Telescope faced financial headwinds at its start, and faced outright termination for three years from 2019 to 2021. Congress regularly rejected these proposals, and provided critical funding for the project early on that helped it launch ahead of schedule and on-budget.

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