The World's Most Powerful Space Telescope Is Moving
The Atlantic ‘‘We hope pirates don’t take it,” one astrophysicist said. Getty / NASA / Adam Maida / The Atlantic NASA’s new space telescope has had a rough go. Name a problem, and this telescope—meant to be the most powerful of its kind, a worthy successor to the famous Hubble—hasfacedit: poor management, technical errors, budget overruns, schedule delays, and a pandemic. So, naturally, the people responsible for the telescope’s safety are now thinking about pirates. Yes, pirates. The topic came up at a recent meeting about NASA’s James Webb space telescope, named for a form...
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