NASA Still Aiming For Oct. 31 Launch Of James Webb Space Telescope

JWST
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—This week is to mark the final ground-based, clean-room deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) primary mirror as the observatory is prepared for an ocean voyage from Northrop Grumman facilities in California to its launch site in French Guiana for a planned Oct. 31 liftoff...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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