NASA’s next big space telescope is about to get extremely cold to prep for launch
For the last couple of years, NASA’s next big space observatory — the James Webb Space Telescope — has been carefully pieced together at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. But now the telescope has left its primary home in the Northeast and has been delicately shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the spacecraft will undergo extreme temperature testing to make sure it’s ready to be launched into deep space. It’s the first of a couple pit stops the telescope will make in the US before being shipped to South America for its scheduled launch in late 2018.
In truth, only part of the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is in Houston right now. But it’s arguably the most crucial part: the telescope’s…
