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The James Webb Space Telescope is intended as a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, but it鈥檚 become a target for federal budget cutters. KUNC鈥檚鈥�

As the shuttle Atlantis makes its final orbits of the Earth Wednesday night, it's carrying four astronauts, some trash from the space station and a load of congressional politics. Capitol Hill has always been deeply involved in NASA's activities 鈥� and sometimes seems to regard NASA as a jobs program as well as a space program.

A NASA satellite that was supposed to study aspects of climate change crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday. It's the second science satellite to have such a failure in the past two years.