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Up, and it was my first-ever view of a truly dark sky. and i saw so many stars. i went, "wow." i just -- i had never imagined that was possible. i cannot even count them, and they were so bright. and a little later, my father took me to a star party. and i remember looking at the moon through a telescope, and i went, "ah, wow," i couldn't believe that the moon that i had seen so many times actually had craters on it. i saw an unbelievable amount of detail. i just didn't know it existed. and at some point did i realize, i don't know how i had the foresight at a young age it i thought, i'm not g...

Big to look at the dimmest galaxies in the universe. >> the james webb telescope is not just built by scientists to look into the univery, it's taking humanity on a journey. we're going to enter a completely new part of observational space where we've never trod before. and every time we've done this as a species we've discovered new things. >> we have just received the 18 hexagon that's make up the big mirror that collects the starlight and focuses in on the camera. gold has very unique properties in terms of reflecting infrared led. this is an infrared telescope. that's why we choose gold. >...

Nonhuman spaceflight that nasa's ever done. >> it looks at areas that the hubble could never see. >> the james webb space telescope certainly is the most complex telescope anyone's ever built. >> this is a chance to measure myself against one of the hardest problems man has -- has set himself a goal to do. >> this is the huge eye in the sky, and it's going to capture very first light of the universe. >> we're going to test it, we're going to put it on a rocket, shoot it out. we don't know what we're going to find. the slightest thing that could go wrong could actually mean this mission could f...

>> i do remember this path -- >> yeah. >> the path -- >> unfortunately i don't have the key right now. >> oh. >> there's nothing in there. just some empty shelves. >> this is not the astronomer's ideal weather conditions. >> isn't this a way to understand why we had to go to space? >> to find planets, you need stare unblinkingly. so besides the fact that the sun gets in our way sometimes, we have day, the weather does, too. so no observations are going to be done tonight. >> you spent a lot of years up here looking for exoplanets. did you find any? >> we found hundreds of periodic dimmings of ...

The day. >> james webb should continue its extraordinary potential in maintaining u.s. leadership in astronomy and astro physics, let's finish this incredibly important project. >> inspiring projects are an investment in our future. we must not lose sight of the importance of bringing the james webb space telescope to a successful outcome. >> hi. >> see ya. >> have a good day. >> so this is like the biggest day of your career in a way, isn't it? >> it's pretty big. been working seven years towards this day, so yeah. yeah. this is going to be now the jails webb observatory.