Apollo-Era Thermal-Vacuum Chamber Revived For Webb Testing

HOUSTON — An eight-year, $120 million overhaul of the world’s largest cryogenically controlled thermal vacuum chamber will soon be completed to support NASA’s $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Built in 1965 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to check out the thermal control systems for the...

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