Webb Telescope Move from NASA's Johnson Space Center to Northrop Grumman B-Roll

  • Released Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:46PM
  • ID: 12871

B-roll footage of engineers transporting the James Webb Space Telescope from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas to Northrop Grumman's cleanroom in Redondo Beach California. Engineers re-installed OTIS into the Space Telescope Transport Air Rail and Sea (STTARS) container at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From there, STTARS was moved to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, and then to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston Texas. Once at the airfield, engineers loaded STTARS onto a C5 Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft, and had STTARS flown out to Los Angeles International (LAX) Airport. Engineers unloaded STTARS from the C5 Aircraft and transported STTARS to Northrop Grumman M8 Cleanroom facility.

B-Roll footage of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas moving the STTARS container into the Chamber A cleanrrom. Once inside the cleanroom, engineers remove the lid and tent-frame from the container.

B-Roll footage of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, moving and installing the Webb Telescope into the STTARS container. The engineers then re-install the tent-frame and lid to the container.

B-Roll footage of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space center in Houston Texas, moving the STTARS container out of the chamber A cleanroom and into the airlock in building 32.

B-roll footage of engineers transporting the STTARS container from NASA's Johnson Space Center to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston Texas.

B-Roll footage of engineers loading STTARS on the C5 Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston Texas.

B-Roll footage of the C5 Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft taking off from Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston Texas.

B-Roll footage of engineers transporting the STTARS container from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Northrop Grumman's M8 cleanroom in Redondo Beach California.

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