Building the James Webb Space Telescope

Credit: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CONCEPT
The art and reality of building a major orbiting observatory has been compared to the creation of one of Europe's great cathedrals. Both require a grand plan, an ability to keep working under stress and similar amounts of toil. The competition to build the James Webb Space Telescope ended last year...

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