Transporting the James Webb Telescope_ How They Moved the World’s Most Valuable Object

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The James Webb telescope is an incredible piece of engineering that took many years and billions of dollars to make, but how did NASA transport such a delicate and valuable machine across the world? In this video we look at the different journeys that the James Webb telescope went through before it even left the ground.

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00:00 How They Moved the World’s Most Valuable Object
00:32 Complications with the James Webb Telescope
01:20 How Nasa Packaged the James Webb Telescope
01:34 STTARS Space Telescope Transporter
02:26 The Making of the James Webb Telescope's Mirror
04:03 Transporting the James Webb Telescope

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Credits:

Written and edited by Ewan Cunningham (https://www.instagram.com/ewan_cee/)
Narrated by: Beau Stucki (http://beaustucki.com/)

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