The Shipping and Handling of a Gigantic Space Telescope
The James Webb will soon travel from Maryland to Texas, and the move requires a lot more than a “fragile” sticker slapped onto on the side of a box.
The James Webb Space Telescope is ready for the next step in its journey to becoming the most powerful space observatory ever, tasked with glimpsing the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe. NASA the telescope’s 21-foot-tall, honeycomb-like gold-plated mirrors and scientific instruments at NASA’s facility in Maryland. Soon, the hardware will be packed up and shipped to Texas, where it will undergo even more tests before
