Decades of work is in the balance as NASA enters the final stages before shipping the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to the launch site in the French Guiana.
NASA and the telescope manufacture, Northrop Grumman, provided an update Tuesday on the next generation telescope, which is slated to launch on Oct.
31 onboard an Ariane 5 rocket. Teams have faced delays this year due to the pandemic and previously for hardware issues. “Over the past year, in this pandemic environment, families, and employees have learned to live and work together like we never imagined and we still kept this observatory going through it,” James Webb Space Telescope program director Greg Robinson said. [TRENDING: Boy charged with murder appears in court | Video: