CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta June 4, 2024 20:27:00
Me as a scientist. as an engineer and a human being. >> a sense of awe and, frankly, got emotional. >> reporter: getting emotional about the telescope is something lee feinberg has learned to bury after working on webb more than two decades. a micro meteoroid struck a massive golden mirror which are critical for its operation. >> earlier in my career it might have been a punch in the gut. what i've learned about working on a big project like this is things are never as bad as they first seem or never as good as they first seem. >> reporter: he was right. the telescope survived the strike and n...