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The James Webb Space Telescope mirrors have completed deep-freeze tests and are removed from the X-ray and Cryogenic...
Caption: One dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb Space...
BALL AEROSPACE ENGINEER DAVE CHANEY, (L), AND MARSHALL ENGINEER HARLAN HAIGHT, (R), GUIDE ARRAY OF SIX GOLD-PLATED...
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing...
Helium is the element with the lowest boiling point. Find out how the James Webb Space Telescope uses this special...
Goddard Technicians Tony Kiem (left) and George Mooney (right) guide the craned structure holding the Webb...
BALL AEROSPACE ENGINEER DAVE CHANEY, (L), AND MARSHALL ENGINEER HARLAN HAIGHT, (R), GUIDE ARRAY OF SIX GOLD-PLATED...
BALL AEROSPACE ENGINEER DAVE CHANEY, (L), AND MARSHALL ENGINEER HARLAN HAIGHT, (R), GUIDE ARRAY OF SIX GOLD-PLATED...
NASA image release August 23, 2012 What looks like a giant golden spider weaving a web of cables and cords, is...
BALL AEROSPACE AND NASA ENGINEERS & TECHNICIANS INSTALL MIRRORS ON THE ROTATABLE CRYOGENIC OPTICAL TEST STAND IN...
The Webb Telescope begins its journey to the launch site leaving the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach,...
BALL AEROSPACE ENGINEER DAVE CHANEY, (L), AND MARSHALL ENGINEER HARLAN HAIGHT, (R), GUIDE ARRAY OF SIX GOLD-PLATED...
Contamination from organic molecules can harm delicate instruments and engineers are taking special care at NASA to...
A technician is installing the bolts that will hold the MIRI, or Mid-Infrared Instrument, to the composite...
Bill Nye and Dr. Jim Garvin at the Science on a Sphere during a tour of Goddard Space Flight Center on September 8,...
Bill Nye at the building 29 during a tour of Goddard Space Flight Center on September 8, 2011 Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill...
This is the James Webb Space Telescope ETU (engineering test unit) primary mirror segment returning to the cleanroom...
Attendees watch a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space...
Testing is crucial part of NASA's success on Earth and in space. So, as the actual flight components of NASA's James...
Bill Nye checks out the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope at the building 29 clean room during a tour of...
NASA engineer Acey Herrera recently checked out copper test wires inside the thermal shield of the Mid-Infrared...
Adam Reiss, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins...
A James Webb Space Telescope flight spare primary mirror segment is loaded onto the CMM (Configuration Measurement...
The marquee of the Greenbelt Cinema before a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story...