BBCNEWS BBC News December 25, 2021 12:23:00
Top of the rocket. in order to protect the telescope as it goes up they put a covering over it. you dont want supersonic air rushing past your very valuable telescope. so they put the nose cone on, but obviously to come off the top of the rocket to start doing its thing. that knows cap has to come off. if it does not, then the whole rocket will fall back out into the atlantic and that is game over and $10 billion down the drain. i am a little bit nervous, my palms are sweating, but so far so goo...
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