An Introduction to the James Webb Space Telescope Mission

A look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Writer
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator
Jonathan North (USRA): Animator
Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator
Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator
Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Editor
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Videographer
Kristen Carney (Self): Narrator

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[SteveMHN]

I really hope this thing is worth all the hype, I've been waiting for it my entire adult life. I hope the rocket doesn't explode when it finally launches.

[matthewor]

NASA
2020: this is your

2050: this is your telescope

[whatdamath]

Since it's mine, I don't like the name. I'm officially renaming it, Anton Petrov Space Thing That Folds Like Origami - has a much better ring to it.

[humanbeing]

By the time this thing gets launched, the last star would have died.

[achaladka]

No more bragging, just launch it plz... Enough postponing.... I really need some new wallpapers for my Computer

[skippa.]

Let’s hope they get the mirror right this time

[scusethegoose]

Can’t wait for this, imagine the james webb universe photo gallery, possibly more beautiful than hubble’s. So excited for the public to visualise the universe better.

[therocinante]

I remember watching an "introduction" to webb in 1999.

[auricom]

"It's your telescope"
me: k send it.
I'm so eager to see the images this telescope will capture.

[BB-bndl]

Pure torture ;)

Get that thing up there already!
Our solutions are all up there. It's all so magical.

[NoMoreForeignWars]

You've been "introducing" this thing for the last 20 years. Just launch it already!

[tylerh]

If you take a look at the Hubble deep field and the images it provided us, it is really hard to imagine what an even more powerful telescope could be able to see.

[mindeyi]

I hope they made two of them, just in case.

[richardhewit]

I really hope I live long enough to see some of the images it sends back.

[VedanthB]

0:04 “This is YOUR telescope.”

Umm, does that mean we get to use it using our home computers?

[widget]

*LAUNCH IT ALREADY!*
we're so close...

[donunderwood]

Another introduction?!
Well, I guess there have been kids come to age that never heard of it, as long as NASA has taken to get it launched.

[DeluxeJustDeluxe]

Launching this will end NASAs best and longest running sci-fi series to date...

[Chrisace]

They should start making another one now just in case something happens to this one.

[iloveplasticbottles]

Either launch it or I’m gonna go there and launch it my damn self