NASA Filming next Friday – Christmas eve – To launch the newest space telescope.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson confirmed Friday that the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to explode on December 24. The European Ariane missile will provide a lift from French Guiana in South America.
$10 Billion Successor to Webb – Hubble Space telescope – Was supposed to go up on Saturday, but was hit by a surprise during launch preparations, which caused a four-day delay. Then the poor contact link on the rocket had to be fixed, and launch was delayed for another two days.
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US and European space officials on Friday signed off on a launch date, following the final round of tests.
Nelson expected a smaller crowd at the launch site because of the holidays. 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 aboard the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it into space from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. (M.Pedoussaut/ESA via AP, file)
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“Since Christmas Eve, all the congressional delegates that came down have evaporated,” he told The Associated Press. He noted that even NASA’s teams and contractors had shrunk. But it will be there.
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After years of flying, Webb will look back at the beginning of time, when the first stars and galaxies formed, while also examining the atmospheres of planets orbiting the stars closest to their homes. NASA partners with Europe And Canada Space agency in mega project.
“There’s a lot of stuff riding on this, it just opens up all sorts of new understandings and discoveries about the universe,” Nelson said.
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Is there a better birthday present than seeing a telescope launch?
“What I want for Christmas is not my front teeth, but for the success of JWST,” Nelson replied, referring to the telescope in a nutshell.
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