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EPISODE · Jul 7, 2021 · 1H 18M

Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope

from Planetary Radio · host The Planetary Society

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be 100 times as powerful as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. We talk with three leaders of the effort to build, launch and deploy it as soon as November of this year. These conversations were recorded on the other side of a window facing the Northrop Grumman clean room in which technicians were putting the finishing touches on the observatory. Bruce Betts salutes Webb with a special What’s Up Random Space Fact.  Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/jwst-vila-ochs-robinsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Jul 7, 2021

Host Mat Kaplan visits the James Webb Space Telescope in California to see the observatory before it launches and speak with project leaders.

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