James Webb Space Telescope
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The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. It is the largest telescope in space, and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments,
Three-quarter view of the top
Bottom (Sun-facing side)
Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014
Engineers cleaning a test mirror with carbon dioxide snow, 2015
James E. Webb
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James Edwin Webb was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb l
James Webb Space Telescope
…Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University operates Webb. The primary contractor for the project was Northrop Grumman. The telescope is named after James E. Webb, who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Webb's primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal…
Official portrait, 1966
Webb presents NASA's Group Achievement Award to Kennedy Space Center Director Kurt H. Debus, while Wernher von Braun (center) looks on.
Webb, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Kurt H. Debus, and President John F. Kennedy receive a briefing on Saturn I launch operations during a tour of Launch Complex 34, September 1962.
Webb's First Deep Field