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Amazing feat of engineering. NASA can be proud of achieving something that no other space agency could do. It took courage to keep shovelling money and effort i

Amazing feat of engineering. NASA can be proud of achieving something that no other space agency could do. It took courage to keep shovelling money and effort into this project and some amazing science to get it deployed into space.

davesque 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I think some people might take issue with the suggestion that this was entirely NASA's achievement.
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- Crash0v3rid3 5y ago
  Who else was involved?
  - davesque 5y ago
    ESA and CSA to name a couple. Probably also lots of other uncredited, small cross-institutional interactions. Not to mention all the details of the launch. I was partly trying to speculate as to why the comment appeared to be getting down-voted. But I guess it's also my opinion that it's kinda weird to claim that no one else could have done it. Who else are we talking about other than earthbound humans?
  - magicalhippo 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par... NASA, ESA and CSA have collaborated on the telescope since 1996. [...] ESA is providing the NIRSpec instrument, the Optical Bench Assembly of the MIRI instrument, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher, and manpower to support operations. The CSA will provide the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager Slitless Spectrograph plus manpower to support operations. Several thousand scientists, engineers, and technicians spanning 15 countries have contributed to the build, test and integration of the JWST. A total of 258 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions are participating in the pre-launch project; 142 from the United States, 104 from 12 European countries, and 12 from Canada. Other countries as NASA partners, such as Australia, have or will be involved in post-launch operation.
- emptyfile 5y ago
  ESA and CSA seem to be in every headline so I wanted to emphasize that only one org would've poured so much money into a project. NASA gets way too much flak and little credit these days. I'm European btw.

davesque 5y ago

I agree with the sentiment, but I think some people might take issue with the suggestion that this was entirely NASA's achievement.

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Crash0v3rid3 5y ago
Who else was involved?
- davesque 5y ago
  ESA and CSA to name a couple. Probably also lots of other uncredited, small cross-institutional interactions. Not to mention all the details of the launch. I was partly trying to speculate as to why the comment appeared to be getting down-voted. But I guess it's also my opinion that it's kinda weird to claim that no one else could have done it. Who else are we talking about other than earthbound humans?
- magicalhippo 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par... NASA, ESA and CSA have collaborated on the telescope since 1996. [...] ESA is providing the NIRSpec instrument, the Optical Bench Assembly of the MIRI instrument, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher, and manpower to support operations. The CSA will provide the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager Slitless Spectrograph plus manpower to support operations. Several thousand scientists, engineers, and technicians spanning 15 countries have contributed to the build, test and integration of the JWST. A total of 258 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions are participating in the pre-launch project; 142 from the United States, 104 from 12 European countries, and 12 from Canada. Other countries as NASA partners, such as Australia, have or will be involved in post-launch operation.
emptyfile 5y ago
ESA and CSA seem to be in every headline so I wanted to emphasize that only one org would've poured so much money into a project. NASA gets way too much flak and little credit these days. I'm European btw.