18-02-2016 13:11 via uk.news.yahoo.com

NASA's Next Big Space Telescope Coming Together Despite 'Snowzilla'

NASA continues to prep its next great space telescope for a planned 2018 launch, despite some roadblocks thrown up by Mother Nature. The blizzard may have stopped traffic and closed schools, but it could not stop scientists from working on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the $8.8 billion successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope. About a week after the storm, I left Florida's not-so-frigid Space Coast to journey up here to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where JWST is being put
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