How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to “sniff” the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth. But getting it to work is no easy task. The telescope is far bigger than its predecessor, the famous Hubble Space Telescope, and it needs to make its observations a million miles away from Earth—so there will be no chance to go out and fix it. That means there’s no room for error; the most ambitious telescope ever built needs to work perfectly. Meet the engineers making it happen and join them on their high stakes journey to uncover new secrets of the universe.
Chapters 00:00 Introduction 05:44 The Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field and Redshift Galaxies 11:11 JWST Revolutionizes the Way the Universe is Seen 15:55 Challenges of Building the James Webb Space Telescope 25:08 Transporting the Telescope to the Launch Pad 28:20 Launching the James Webb Space Telescope 33:41 Deployment and Operation of the James Webb Space Telescope 40:50 JWST's Gold Mirrors 46:55 The First Images Taken by JWST
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