I had the absolute privilege to regularly attending lectures at the DC air and space museum. These were held partly as an educational tool for congressional sta

I had the absolute privilege to regularly attending lectures at the DC air and space museum. These were held partly as an educational tool for congressional staffers, to demonstrate the hard value of NASA science mission funding. They were deep yet accessible. We get so much out of our science funding! These missions do have primary science goals and in order to book time on the instruments, proposals are submitted and prioritized accordingly. The science being done is absolutely wild stuff, formation of new planets, stars, universe and everything. With a telescope like this you can watch the evolution of all matter in the universe, from near the beginning of time up to now in all its trillions of permutations. You get this amazing data on everything and can spend decades analyzing it for new insights and models. Twitter and the general population understands none of this, but NASA understands that a few pretty pictures will keep the funding flowing. But what thing could we learn that will really wow folks? Composition of exoplanet atmospheres, of course. Class M planet detected!