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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The place is known as the Clean Room, or sometimes the ...
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...
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Inside a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (IMAGE)
Inside a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, on the afternoon of April 25, 2016, the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirrors were uncovered in preparation for installation of ...
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Near-earth asteroid sample dropped off in Utah by NASA contains ingredients of life
Scientists quickly moved the samples to a special clean room at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah to keep them pure before sending them to the NASA laboratories for deeper study. The mission brought ...