WASHINGTON — Massive cost growth on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will imperil funding for the agency’s on-orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big-ticket space observatories and a host of less-expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

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