#JWST paid for over 40 million hours of labor for 10,000 people, that is highly paid JOBS involving 19 countries and 29 states
#JWST $10 Billion over decades? That is no more than 4% of NASAs budget every year. The Department of defense gets over $700 Billion every year.
Some Webb developments have had spin-off benefits. One example assists surgeons performing LASIK eye surgery: Engineers developed
a technique for precisely and rapidly measuring the mirrors to guide their grinding and polishing.
This technology has since been adapted to creating high-definition maps of patients’ eyes for improved
surgical precision.
The target launch date for #JWST is Confirmed for 25 December as early as possible in the launch window starting 0720 EST / 12:20 GMT / 13:20 CET and lasting 32 minutes (and every day after, before Jan 9 when the moon gets in the way)
Roll-out (pulled by a little cute blue truck) is foreseen for tomorrow 23 Dec, morning local time.
OMG it is happening!
Hey, lets check the weather for the next few days at Kourou, French Guiana, the home of Europe's spaceport where the Webb space telescope #JWST just had a weather delay ...
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well, it is a Rain Forest
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