Webb Telescope Milestone: Completion of Telescope Element

  • Released Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:48PM
  • ID: 12409

Finished video of Webb Telescope Telescope Element construction at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Thousands of people, for almost two decades, accomplished the construction of the telescope element of the largest space telescope ever created. The optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope stands complete in one of the largest cleanrooms in the world, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

A Behind-The-Scenes timelapse look at the production crew working in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center clean room to capture glamour images and video of the Webb Telescope Element.

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