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  • 6/6/2025
For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits of technology, inno | dG1fS2sxdlI3QmRUbm8
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00:00For 25 years, NASA has been filming the journey of the James Webb Space Telescope.
00:07This is a never-before-seen look.
00:10I'm excited for people to see the drama of what it takes to make a space telescope.
00:20Nature has its way of being even more creative than we are.
00:23We have always been surprised by what we see in the sky.
00:32That's why building a telescope has always been interesting.
00:38A voyage back to the birth of the universe.
00:42These decades of work of thousands of people around the world to make this telescope possible.
00:48Okay, gonna have lots of inventions along the way.
00:51Now, how can we justify this to our constituents?
00:56We're gonna change how we understand the universe.
00:58Science is a process.
01:01All six metric tons of this has to be launched a million miles out into outer space.
01:07Isn't that kind of crazy not to be able to service it?
01:10Yeah, that's the only choice we had.
01:14I really wanted to honor what an incredible mission this was.
01:17We were on edge from blizzards to hurricanes.
01:23There was nothing easy about Webb at all.
01:26Constant pressure.
01:28There was something different about this one.
01:31You knew you were in the middle of something big.
01:33We're gonna see all the way back to the very beginning of the universe.
01:39What we call cosmic dawn.
01:40There was no infinite, numbs of light.
01:41Sometimes dark, like a disaster...
01:42There was no coincidence.
01:43There was something forICES at all.
01:52We're gonna see all sorts of things up.
01:53There was something missing in the universe...
01:56There was something for us.
01:57There is something for us.

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