The James Webb Space Telescope is Fully Unfolded in Space!

Two weeks after launch, the James Webb Space Telescope completed the last of its 50 major deployments in space. Relive the historic moment Webb unfolded its primary mirror in space – a major milestone — from mission control at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Credits: NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center

Haley Reed: Lead Producer, Lead Editor
Michael McClare: Producer
Katy Mersmann: Producer
Sophia Roberts: Producer
Michael Starobin: Producer

Music credit: "Victory and Power" by Le Fat Club and Olivier Grim [SACEM] by Universal Music Production

[EricMalette]

Got the chills. Way to go NASA, ESA and CSA. Job well done!

[richkroberts]

The more I read about JWST, the more awed and inspired I become. The scientists and engineers have done the near impossible to bring this telescope into reality. This is bleeding edge technology folks. The people that have brought it forth are geniuses. Don’t believe me? Go read up on how it was made and what it will be able to see. We are living in exciting times!

[johankaewberg]

I showed my wife the launch live. I cried. She didn’t quite understand except that it was emotional for me. She showed proper respect and we had a good hug. Don’t think I can sustain that until full deployment at L2 :-)

[IbnBahtuta]

A real human endeavor. The number of points of failure was scary to even think about. I won't relax until it's fully operational. Gratz to everybody involved.

[holyarchon]

Time is flying for this masterpiece! And an extra 10 years on its lifetime??!! Nice 👍

[jupiterjazz]

Goes to show, when all the world works together, anything is possible.

[patricknelson]

Congrats on a successful deployment! Absolutely stoked to see what it sends back. Go JWST!

[thomasfholland]

This is an accomplishment of such a magnitude that it will be taught about for centuries to come. Congratulations to everyone who made this possible and successful. 👍👍👍😊

[warrenmullett]

Congratulations to everybody who has worked on this masterpiece!

[malibustacy]

Since the last of the 50 deployments have been completed can we assume that any additional cheers and applause that we hear from the NASA team are intended just for me for being so special and charming.

[DougRM]

Our way forward has always been science.

[ziomalZparafii]

More shocking than fully opened JWST is that it has been two weeks already in space. I feel like it was 3 days ago...

[kalaiyarasan]

Hearing itself gives goosebumps
Congratulations team JWST

[joseffranek]

I am very happy that JWST has been on the road for 14 days and O.K. has the main 50 attributes. and in 6 months the remaining 50 applications will be O.K. for full use in space research, Super!
Joe from Prague

[brettbrannon]

And thus is why NASA and partners are simply the best🙌🏻💯

[seantube]

Fantastic job! The wait is going to be so worth it!

[vadinhopsc]

This is wonderful engineering. Everything working fine in deep space temperature. Awesome! It seems it was worth to wait for so long. Now we'll wait for first images after some 6 months.

[davix]

Congratulations for the successful deployment of Webb. I can't wait to see what James Webb will teach us about the universe!

[Tubeytime]

"expected about 6 months after its launch" reading that gave me chills. A countdown is under way

[cryptostrike]

We've been waiting for this so long. This is amazing, congratulations to all the team.