How engineers got NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ready to take its first images - The Verge

On July 12th, NASA will reveal the first full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory. Those pictures are the culmination of six months of work aligning the telescope’s mirrors and commissioning the in…

For the past six months, Scott Friedman and a team of roughly 160 scientists and engineers have been working through one of the most daunting to-do lists in all of science. Nearly every day, they dro… [+12040 chars]

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