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And Markwardt's proposal, it turns out, was one of
"I think that it's very unlikely, if not impossible, that I would have gotten time on James Webb if it hadn't been for DAPR," Markwardt said."This is something that everybody wanted to use, and I just can't believe that they would give a little grad student like me the time.
The Institute thought it had a real opportunity to change the system. Overall, astronomers have far too many ideas for using the Hubble Space Telescope than the instrument can ever execute, and STScI has more flexibility to experiment than, say, NASA might.
"They said that they felt relieved because they were just talking about science, not about the teams," she said."They described it as liberating because they could just focus on the best science."
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