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First James Webb Space Telescope Photo Today

PickyPicky3 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:38:07 GMT

Tomorrow NASA will show more.

It seems like it was just yesterday that it was launched.

Oh boy! I've got that little kid feeling!

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PuppyLoverBob666 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:06:49 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
Tomorrow NASA will show more.

It seems like it was just yesterday that it was launched.

Oh boy! I've got that little kid feeling!

Me too!

I'm the same way--I can hardly wait to see those pictures. What really intrigues me is the the thought that, in many cases, we're looking at things that don't even exist any more.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:41:15 GMT

Is this the $10 billion telescope??? I'm in favor of space exploration but the cost of this seems a little?? excessive..

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ValuSkr — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:27:03 GMT

I'm looking forward to the pictures! By the way, the JWST is named after James Webb who was administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, not the former senator from Virginia.

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PickyPicky3 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:09:16 GMT

Where is it? It's 6:09 and I can't find it.

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PickyPicky3 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:39:19 GMT

I saw it online. Too much blah-blah-blah. I hope tomorrow will be better

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paixmcdao — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:44:16 GMT

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golding76 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:01:24 GMT

It looks like a beautiful fantasy scape. What a marvel!

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PuppyLoverBob666 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:46:55 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
Is this the $10 billion telescope??? I'm in favor of space exploration but the cost of this seems a little?? excessive..

If we hadn't got entangled in the Vietnam war plus some other military actions, we'd be a lot further along than we already are now. Exploration is usually expensive; remember how Queen Isabella had to sell some of her jewelry to fund Christopher Columbus's voyage? Same principle now.

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PickyPicky3 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:26:11 GMT

More images from NASA at 10:30 am.

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gardenman — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:53:22 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
Is this the $10 billion telescope??? I'm in favor of space exploration but the cost of this seems a little?? excessive..

They had to get this right the first try as its orbit is out of reach of our service capabilities. Hubble was "in the neighborhood" and could be serviced when things went wrong. (And things went wrong.) The James Webb telescope is not "in the neighborhood." Spaceflight of all types is insanely expensive. When you put something where it can't be serviced, you need to make sure it's right.

We don't just take ten billion one-dollar bills and launch them into space. That money stays here in salaries and jobs to find and exploit the raw materials and pay the workers and teams working on it. The money just doesn't evaporate, it stays here. The technology developed for the space program is part of why we have computers and online forums these days. Much of the technology we use every day comes from space programs.