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If this launch goes well, best Christmas present ever… the photos should be unprecedented, since it’s an infrared telescope. Huge gas cloud panoramas and stuff. It will be bigger as when T-Rex got feathers… I think out view of a mostly “empty” sky will change…
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The Ariane 5 rocket sits ready to launch @NASAWebb from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, targeted for Dec. 25 at 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC). More 📷 flic.kr/s/aHBqjzvTi8
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I remember being super excited and then super disappointed by early Hubble years when the mirror defect came to light (heh!). There were lot of angry op-eds about $5b white elephant, bad big government mismanagement, etc…. and then they fixed it. The greatest comeback ever.
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I admit I was small-minded enough back then to briefly join in the cynical nasa-bashing. Taught me an important lesson of some sort. But damn, the deep field image alone is worth the whole Hubble mission
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