NASA photoshoot next friday Christmas Eve – Launch of the latest space telescope.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson confirmed Friday that the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to explode on Dec. 24. The European Ariane missile will provide support to French Guiana in South America.
10 billion dollars on the web – considered the successor to the Hubble space telescope – It was supposed to go up on Saturday but was hit during preparations for launch which was delayed by four days. Then the bad contact link on the rocket had to be fixed, and the launch was postponed for another two days.
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US and European space authorities signed the launch date on Friday after a final round of tests.
Nelson expects a smaller crowd at the launch site due to the holiday. Takeoff is scheduled for 7:20 a.m. EDT.
In this image released by the European Space Agency on Saturday, December 11, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is mounted atop an Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it into space from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. (M.Pedoussaut/ESA via AP, file)
“Since Christmas Eve, all of the congressional delegations that have been snowing have evaporated,” he told The Associated Press. He noted that even NASA employees and contractors have dwindled. But it will be there.
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After years of flying, Webb will look back to roughly the beginning of time, when the first stars and galaxies were forming, while also examining the atmospheres of planets orbiting the stars closest to his home. NASA partnered with European e Canadian Space agencies in the mega project.
“There’s a lot of interest in this,” Nelson said, “It just opens up all kinds of new understandings and discoveries about the universe.”
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Is there a better birthday present than watching a telescope launch?
“All I want for Christmas are not my front teeth, but JWST success,” replied Nelson, pointing to the telescope in his short film.
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