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Gold-plated mirrors will align to create one giant mirror. it's 21 feet across, six times larger than the one on the hubble space telescope. for more than three decades, hubble has given us stunning, humbling views of the universe. but, webb will be a major upgrade. like a night vision camera, this infrared telescope will search for heat signatures of the very first light after the big bang. >> we are looking for the of the faintest objects, if the telescope doesn't get cold then it will actually glow brighter than the objects we're looking for. >> reporter: to block the sun's heat from blindi...

>> reporter: the man behind the tree's 40,000+ lights is david gigerich. >> i actually bought scaffolding to put the lights on. i have to use a boom lift to get the star on the top. and quite frankly, i spend three weeks putting the lights on this tree. it's the most exhausting yet exhilarating time for me. >> reporter: there's a good reason for that. david doesn't feel alone when he's decorating. he feels like his son duncan is right there with him. >> the best part of duncan-- and everybody who would ever talk about him would say, his warm heart, his warm smile, and his big laugh. >> reporte...

Shield is so big, it and everything else had to fold up to fit inside the rocket. once in space, webb will carefully unfold and rebuild itself like robotic origami. project manager bill oaks. >> it is hands down the complexity of its deployment, the material it's been made of, has never been tried by a nasa mission before. >> reporter: if any one of 344 parts fail, the entire mission could be jeopardized. about one-third involve deploying of that sun shield. 1,300 feet of cables almost 600 pulley assemblies. and it all has to work. a million miles out, no calling a.a.a. >> no, but i'm confiden...

Cold, it will actually glow brighter than the objoro blo th, engineers designed a first of its kind sun shield, the size of a tennis court. it's five layers will keep the telescope side more than 600 degrees colder than the sun facing side. >> this material here is about 2 thousandths of an inch thick. >> reporter: once in space, webb will carefully unfold and rebuild itself like robotic origami. project manager bill oaks. >> the complexity, the deployment, the materials has never been tried by a n.a.s.a. mission before. >> reporter: if any one of 344 parts fail, the entire mission could be je...