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[whooshes]
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[slow, dramatic synth music playing]
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[Amber Straughn] After the Big Bang,
the universe was just filled
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with this sort of cosmic soup
of hydrogen and helium gas.
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[mysterious music playing]
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Eventually, those hydrogen
and helium atoms
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started to form together to fuse stars.
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The stars were probably
grouped into galaxies.
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That was what we call the first light.
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[Thomas Zurbuchen] To see first light,
the first, uh, galaxies in our universe,
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that distant past
is where creation happened.
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[Amber] When we look at the sky,
beyond the stars in our Milky Way,
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we can only see darkness.
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We've never had the technology
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to see that first part
of the story of the universe.
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To be able to look back in time
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to see the very first light,
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you need the most complex telescope
in history.
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[Thomas] Webb,
in the whole history of NASA,
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is the riskiest mission ever done.
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[reporter] This mission could be
a technological triumph
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or a heartbreaking disaster.
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[Mike Menzel] We're putting
the largest telescope in space,
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a million miles away.
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You know, you can think of
a thousand things that can go wrong.
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[Thomas] It's the largest number
of single point failures
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of any mission ever done.
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[Amber] To try to think the unthinkable
of, "If it doesn't work…"
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[radio controller speaking indistinctly]
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[Amber] It's a scary thought, for sure.
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[Mike] Any successful
mission systems engineer
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who doesn't think there was luck involved
is either a fool or a liar.
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-[metallic ringing]
-[dramatic music playing]
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[Amber] Those first images
will help us get closer
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to answering those questions of,
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"Where do we come from?"
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"How did we get here?"
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"Are we alone?"
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That's our history, right there.
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-[Bill Nelson] It is our whole history.
-[Thomas] Our whole history right there.
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[Amber] I have no doubt
that this telescope is our next giant leap
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in our search for life.
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The universe is so big,
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there's got to be
evolved conscious life out there.
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The James Webb Space Telescope
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will fundamentally change
the way we understand the universe.
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[music fading]
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[mysterious music playing]
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[adventurous music playing]
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[dramatic synth music playing]
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[reporter 1] There's a new telescope
in town.
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[reporter 2] The James Webb
Space Telescope,
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named after the second administrator
of NASA, is about to become a reality.
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It's going to be launching
from French Guiana, a spaceport there,
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which is a reminder
that this is not just a NASA mission.
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It is a joint mission
with the European Space Agency
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and the Canadian Space Agency.
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[music intensifies]
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Three decades and ten billion dollars
in the making,
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the project hasn't been
without controversy.
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Multiple mishaps, budget crises,
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even a threatened
congressional cancellation.
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The launch
of the James Webb Space Telescope
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is about as high stakes
as it gets for NASA.
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If something goes wrong,
that is about ten billion dollars,
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more than two decades' worth of work,
down the drain, just like that.
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[Thomas] Hey.
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-[woman] How you doing?
-Well.
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[female reporter] Thomas Zurbuchen is
the head of science at NASA,
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or Dr. Z, as we can also call you.
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The day has come.
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All these decades, all this time,
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all these people
working on this telescope,
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and here we are, minutes to launch.
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[Thomas] We have this telescope
on top of this rocket.
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A telescope that 10,000-plus people
have worked on in many ways.
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And together with that telescope,
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all the hopes and dreams
of those individuals,
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and also tens of thousands of scientists,
some of them not even born,
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that will benefit from this data,
are there with them,
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waiting for these
last minutes of countdown
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for its journey to-- to space.
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[engineer] Thumbs up, all systems are go.
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T-minus 30 seconds and counting.
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[Thomas] Webb,
in the whole history of NASA,
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is the toughest mission ever done.
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There were manufacturing issues,
planning issues, system issues,
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personnel issues.
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Sometimes it looked hopeless to me.
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[engineer] Standing by for terminal count.
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[man in French] Ten, nine, eight…
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[Thomas in English] I've often thought
of Webb as the Apollo of science.
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It is a super hard thing
that's almost impossible.
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And we do it despite it.
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[man in French] …three, two, one, liftoff!
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[whooshing, rumbling]
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[sounds fade]
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[footsteps approaching]
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[Amber] It's been a really long road
to get to this launch.
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I've worked on the project for 15 years.
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I feel like such a core part
of my identity as a person
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is my-- my job, my work.
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I love it, I'm passionate about it,
that's why I do it.
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To try to think the unthinkable
of, "If it doesn't work,"
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like, and then I've poured
my entire career into this,
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it's a scary thought, for sure.
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[dreamy synth music playing]
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I mean, from the time I was six or seven,
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I decided that that's what I want to do.
I want to be an astronomer.
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I grew up in rural Arkansas
on a little farm, middle of nowhere.
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There were no city lights around.
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It was very dark. The sky was beautiful.
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And I was just enthralled by the night sky
from the time I was a kid.
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[whooshing]
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I was in fourth or fifth grade,
went up and watched.
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[commander] We have been given
the go-ahead to begin commanding
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a release of the forward latches.
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[dreamy music continues]
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We're seeing both blankets
unfurl on the solar array.
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[engineer] Looks good.
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I want to wish Hubble
its own set of adventures,
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that it may unlock
further mysteries of the universe.
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[Amber] They decided to point it
at a blank piece of sky,
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nothing there, just to see what happened.
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Like the rest of the world,
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I remember just being stunned
at what we saw.
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The nothing turned out to be filled
with thousands of galaxies.
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It really gave us a sense,
for the very first time,
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just how old the universe is.
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[music fades]
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It's a really cool, sort of,
trick of physics…
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[chuckles] …uh, that we can
literally look back in time, uh,
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with these massive telescopes.
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Telescopes are really like time machines
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in that they let us see
the universe as it was in the past.
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This sounds like science fiction,
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but it's actually
just due to the simple fact
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that light takes time
to travel through space.
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If you look at a streetlamp,
the light from that streetlamp
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takes a teeny, tiny fraction of a second
to cross the street and get to your eye.
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Light from the Sun takes
about eight minutes to get to Earth.
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Think about stepping that out
further and further into the universe.
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Things that are much further away,
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the light takes more time
to travel to our telescopes.
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And so we are literally seeing them
as they were in the past.
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With Hubble, we've been able
to look back into the distant past
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and see some very early galaxies,
some very young galaxies.
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But… we're missing the beginning.
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We're missing the first bit
in the first chapter
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of this 13.8-billion-year story
of the universe.
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[Dan Goldin] We want to look out
into the vastness of space
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and back to the beginnings of time
to answer the questions,
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"How did, and how do, galaxies form?"
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"Are there other habitable planets
outside our solar system?"
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"Is life unique to planet Earth?"
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Hubble and ground-based telescopes
have given us an important start.
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But we must go farther,
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and the Next Generation Space Telescope,
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NGST, will be the next great step taken.
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[Amber] That's what ended up being
the James Webb Space Telescope.
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[Thomas] Webb is such a leap.
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It's the biggest leap of any mission,
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in terms of just the magnitude
of improvements in all dimensions.
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This is like the mother of all telescopes.
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It was clear that there's ten miracles
that needed to happen.
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Entirely new technologies
that nobody had ever done.
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[whirring]
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A totally new detector,
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totally new electronic system
that focused the mirrors,
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ten of those.
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One of the most important numbers is,
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"How many single point failures
do you have?"
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A single point failure
is a single thing that needs to happen
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that, if it's not happening,
the whole mission is a failure.
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[radio controller] Navigation confirmed
that the parachute has deployed
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and we are seeing
significant deceleration.
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[Thomas] Landing on Mars
is something like 80 to 90,
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which is one of the riskiest things
we've ever done.
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Webb is three to four times worse.
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[astronaut] Oh, it's beautiful, Mike,
it really is.
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They've got the flag up now,
and you can see the stars and stripes.
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[Thomas] In terms
of the single point failures,
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worse than Apollo.
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So, how many single point failures
do we have?
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The answer is 344.
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It's the largest number
of single point failures
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of any mission ever done.
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It's like, you know,
just an impossible project.
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[Mike] There's always unknown unknowns
in this business, we know it.
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In the end, you know, technically,
it will all fall on my shoulders.
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You just make the best decision you can
with the data that you have available,
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but you recognize that… there's always
a bit of risk to some of these decisions.
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-[Mike] Cat?
-[Cathy Menzel] Yeah.
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[small dog barking]
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Oh, lighten-- lighten up, killer.
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[Mike] For the past 24 years,
I've been focused on this mission.
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It's like a, you know,
a second child in a-- in a way.
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My children have known nothing
but the James Webb Space Telescope
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since they were about nine or four.
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My son is 30 now, and my daughter's 28.
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The fear that-- that you have to have is,
if something goes wrong,
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there's going to be the press,
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there's going to be the, you know,
the politicians, whatever.
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They're gonna drag your name
through the mud.
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He worries about everything.
It's a-- It's a Menzel gene, actually.
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They worry about every little thing.
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He's not sleeping well at night.
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All these single point failure things
that could go wrong,
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you do worry about those, and, you know…
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[Mike] Damn right, I do.
Damn right, the team does, so…
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That's why we put vigilance on 'em,
we put focus on 'em.
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[opening briefcase]
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These are some of the original concepts
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on, uh, what was then called
the Next Generation Space Telescope.
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The bigger the mirror,
the more light you're collecting.
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So, to actually see first light,
you're going to have to be big.
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We had five-- five concepts
that we looked at.
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This was, uh, an original one.
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The devil in these designs
are in the details,
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so it isn't until you get
to, you know, some detailed engineering
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that looks like this,
that you find the problems.
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The most obvious problem,
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its-- its diameter is bigger
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than the diameter
of the rocket that carries it.
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So you have to fold it up.
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We had deployments that had
the primary mirror segments stacked,
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almost like a record player.
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And then one of the concepts that we had
was, uh, to deploy the primary mirror
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using two leaves
that look like a drop table,
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which is what we're doing now.
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Our preliminary design review was 2008,
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and that's where the telescope starts
really looking like what we have today.
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It's not one of the best models of Webb,
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but it's good enough
to show most people the features.
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There's the primary mirror.
Starlight comes in,
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hits the primary mirror,
gets focused down to the secondary mirror,
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and gets sent
into this, uh, black pyramidal structure.
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After that, it goes back here
where the instruments are.
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The cameras, the spectrometers…
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[foil rattling]
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I'm sorry, the-- the glue
is coming a little loose on this,
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but this right here is the sunshield.
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The sunshield blocks out the light
from the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon.
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We want our telescope to be cold,
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so that it doesn't glow brighter
than the faint stars it's looking at.
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Of the 344 single point failure items,
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225 are associated
with the sunshield deployment.
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That is a never-before-done deployment.
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The first thing that happens,
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those two big pallets
that you see on each side,
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fold down one, then fold down the other.
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They're holding the folded layers
of the sunshield.
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Then a very complex system
of pulleys and tensioning motors
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expand the sunshield
at each of the six vertices.
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And we will individually tension
each of those five layers
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to get not only the right shape,
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but the right position,
relative to each other.
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There are 34 single point failure items
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associated with the tensioning
of the five layers.
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[radio controller] Layer two,
on three, two, one…
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[clicking]
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[Thomas] The thing that's really different
from this space mission
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to pretty much any other space mission
ever done, is how flimsy it is.
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It's not a piece of metal.
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It's more like a folded-up umbrella.
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[Mike] We did three
full-scale deployments,
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and the refolding put wear and tear
on the sunshield.
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The tearing of the sunshield
that we were seeing
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got to the point where we said, "No."
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"It's time to stop testing
and overtesting."
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When you're doing things
like, you know, large sheets,
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it's miles of cables,
things that can get tangled,
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can go in places
you don't want them to in zero-G.
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You can think of a thousand things
that can go wrong.
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We bust it up, fold it up,
we're going to put it on a rocket,
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and then we're going to
literally rebuild it robotically in space,
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and that's, uh-- that's
never been done before.
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Fourteen days after launch,
we latch both sides of the primary mirror.
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There are ten single point failure items
associated with the primary mirror,
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five for each wing.
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[intriguing music playing]
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Having 18 individual segments
was a good way to build the mirror.
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Each individual mirror's movable.
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That helps us to position
each of those hexagons
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to robotically focus our telescope.
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It's going out about a million miles
away from the Earth,
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four times farther than the Moon.
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You don't want
the telescope cracking, breaking,
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when it gets down
to cryogenic temperatures.
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[Amber] NASA actually retrofitted
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the biggest Cryovac chamber
down at Johnson Space Center.
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It was used for Apollo era.
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It took years to be able
to accommodate this huge telescope.
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[air hissing]
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[Mike chuckling] It's the size
of a three-story building,
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tested at temperatures, you know,
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at 50 degrees above absolute zero,
and it worked great.
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That's almost miraculous.
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[Amber chuckling] There was
this awesome day at Goddard
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that people have been looking
forward to for years, really.
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They raised it upright
and rotated it towards the viewing area,
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and we all got to see that mirror.
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And that was just a, like,
"Whew, don't start crying" moment.
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[laughs]
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I mean, because you're-- you're seeing
your own reflection
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in the same mirror
that's going to detect light
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from infant galaxies and distant planets.
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And to think that it's also seeing me?
Like, that was-- that was really cool.
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We've designed this telescope
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specifically to see
the universe in infrared light.
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The most distant galaxies are so far away
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that they are emitting
all of their light as infrared light,
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light that's a little bit more red
than what your eyes can see.
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Even if we had a telescope like Hubble,
a visible-light telescope,
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that was much, much, much bigger,
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we still wouldn't be able to see
the light from these first galaxies.
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While we designed this telescope
to primarily study early galaxies,
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the fact that it's so big and so powerful
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means that it will have
unprecedented capability
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in helping us learn more about exoplanets,
about planets orbiting other stars.
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[dreamy music playing]
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In particular, about whether or not
any of the nearby planets
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might be potentially habitable.
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The way it will do that
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is by looking at the molecules
that are in that planet's atmosphere.
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It would be able to detect
methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor.
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Where there's water, there's usually life.
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It's not a stretch
to say that this telescope
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is our next, sort of, giant leap
in our search for life in the universe.
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I mean, how amazing would it be
if I said, "Look, here are five planets,
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it looks like there is life there"?
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Can you imagine? That changes everything.
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[footsteps jogging]
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Webb is humans at its best,
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a selfless pursuit
of what's really out there.
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Learning more about ourselves,
our history, about the world itself.
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I think it's incredibly amazing.
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[gentle music playing]
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I grew up in Switzerland.
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My father was an evangelist pastor
in a fundamentalist church.
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We hardly ever heard about science.
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I was taught all my youth
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that the whole universe
was built in seven days.
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And then I went to one class.
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The teacher explained how science
changed the trajectory of history.
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And I thought, "That's the job I want."
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"I can do science, and through it,
change the course of history."
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I've been in the job for five years.
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Many people think of me
as not patient enough.
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My way of accountability
sometimes can come across as harsh.
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But suppose it failed.
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It would set the whole history
of world science back
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by one to two decades.
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I track all my miles.
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The whole year…
A thousand is the goal every year.
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Depending on how stressful the year is,
it's more or less.
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The more stress, the more miles.
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Closing in on 1,200.
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NASA, right? This is the agency
that has coined the… the tagline,
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''Failure is not an option.''
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It's a tagline that sounds really good,
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but every time we do a mission,
failure is an option.
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[intriguing music playing]
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There are all these challenges
from the very beginning.
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This institute will be managing
a telescope
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with a launch projected for 2007.
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The target price for doing this
will be 500 million dollars.
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[Thomas] The first time somebody
talked about the price of that telescope,
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everybody who had-- had worked
on-- on the Hubble Space Telescope,
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which was close--
more than six billion dollars,
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knew it's total bullshit.
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As the project grew,
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all of a sudden,
the cost went to six billion dollars.
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Mr. Howard, did you ever see
the movie called The Money Pit?
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[Howard] Yes, absolutely.
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I think the standard line in that movie
was, ''It's only two more weeks.''
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Mm-hmm. Now, how can we justify this
to our constituents?
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[Thomas] There was
an investigation by Congress.
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And they basically said,
"Let's kill that thing."
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It felt like it wasn't going to happen.
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Congress was going to cancel us.
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It was a shock.
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I'm a-- a young scientist
anxious to do science with this telescope,
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and now we're stopping
after all this time?
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[Thomas] Congress said, "We'll give you
the money," and that's when I came in.
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Nobody wanted to talk about it.
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It's like,
"Oh, it's-- it's not-- it's fine."
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It's like, "Well, how are you performing?"
"We're losing time, but it will be fine."
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It was not fine.
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I remember it getting ready
for vibration and acoustics.
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[men speaking indistinctly]
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[Thomas] What you do
is you try to break the telescope.
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Of course you want it to survive,
but you shake it
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just like it will be shaken in the rocket.
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And we blasted sound at it,
just like it will see during a launch.
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[high-pitched ringing]
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[low humming]
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[rattling growing louder]
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[Thomas] The first test
went really, really well.
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Then, when we tested it
with the spacecraft and the sunshield,
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the fasteners started falling down.
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There's 10,000 screws on that thing.
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Now, if you've ever fixed a bicycle,
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you realize if you put the fastener on,
you need to tighten it, so it locks.
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The fasteners were not locked.
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How can that be?
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It needs to go to space.
The fasteners need to be locked.
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So we had to redo all the fasteners,
find all of them.
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It took six months
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and cost 150 million dollars
to fix the problem.
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Frankly, people are making
more mistakes than they should.
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It's embarrassing.
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[dramatic synth music playing]
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In the meantime, we got the largest
number of negative news stories
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of that mission,
as compared to any and all of them.
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Nobody wants to be part of a stinker.
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Everybody wants to be part of a success,
just like any sports team.
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You need to turn it around.
You need to stop losing.
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The team, they were always amazing people.
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I consider it a leadership issue.
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We run the risk of scratching
and damaging the mirror,
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so we have to be very careful about that.
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[Thomas] What I needed to do
is replace leaders
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to bring that team together
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and create the attention that it requires
to do something this magnificent.
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Right, so you want the energy,
"Yes, we're going to do this."
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And then I think that's what happened.
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I remember the day where I basically…
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For the first time,
I was really surprised.
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The two halves,
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the primary mirror and the sunshield,
they had to come together.
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I knew that was going to be really hard.
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They had never seen each other,
those two halves.
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All the systems,
all the cables, everything had to work.
435
00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:23,707
[suspenseful music playing]
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00:26:29,087 --> 00:26:31,089
When the two halves came together…
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00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:35,885
it worked the first time.
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The team were just barely
where they needed to be,
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and they were not ahead,
and all of sudden, they got ahead.
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They were better than what people
had expected them to be.
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That is amazing.
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We have a mission that's basically ready.
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If somebody asks me, "How certain are you
to launch Webb right now?"
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I'm betting my house.
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00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:07,959
-[whirring]
-[music continues]
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[truck beeping]
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00:27:31,274 --> 00:27:34,819
[Amber] All of these years
we've put into getting this telescope
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to the launchpad.
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00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:39,908
Part of me is like, "Is it really here?
Is it really happening?" [laughs]
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[music continues]
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00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:45,664
[sirens wailing]
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00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:49,668
I feel excitement
and-- and, uh, happy nervousness.
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00:27:50,335 --> 00:27:52,337
[suspenseful music building]
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00:28:04,057 --> 00:28:06,601
[Mike] Do I like launches? Well…
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[chuckling] I like-- I like them
when they're over.
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00:28:10,146 --> 00:28:11,981
It's like jumping with a parachute, right?
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00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:15,735
[chuckling] When the parachute opens,
it's always a nice-- a nice ride.
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00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:17,237
[music continues]
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We are just about 12 hours from launching.
Fingers crossed that the weather holds,
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and we'll be able to launch
this telescope tomorrow morning.
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00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:34,087
I can't believe… I can't believe
that we're almost here.
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00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:37,132
I'm so excited. I can't wait
to get this telescope into space.
463
00:28:37,632 --> 00:28:39,634
[tense, droning synth music playing]
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[Thomas] I write both speeches by myself.
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I think it's absolutely critical
that they're authentic and personal,
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uh, especially in a time
of disappointment,
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00:29:01,614 --> 00:29:02,824
frankly,
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00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:06,786
that I'm there authentically as a human.
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00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:08,204
So that's important.
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00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:10,749
The positive speech, nobody will remember.
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00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:13,293
It won't matter.
I can say whatever I want to.
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00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:16,171
The negative speech really matters.
473
00:29:16,796 --> 00:29:19,674
So, it's really important
to think about it carefully.
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[man in French] Seven, six, five,
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four, three, two, one, liftoff.
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00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:30,602
Ignition.
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00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:33,855
[Thomas in English] I remember
the first Ariane 5 failure.
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I still remember how it looked.
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[man in French] Liftoff.
480
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:42,322
[Thomas in English] I still remember it,
burned in my-- in my head.
481
00:29:45,992 --> 00:29:49,788
[man in French] All propulsion parameters
are normal. Trajectory is normal.
482
00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:57,545
[Thomas in English] "Today's launch
was not successful,
483
00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:01,341
and Webb did not reach
the orbit as planned."
484
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:03,009
[explodes]
485
00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:05,553
[morose music playing]
486
00:30:06,763 --> 00:30:08,723
"This is a setback for all of us,
487
00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:11,684
and for science
and exploration of our universe."
488
00:30:13,686 --> 00:30:15,313
"We surely are disappointed."
489
00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:23,780
"However, as difficult as the setback
we're experiencing right now is,
490
00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:26,699
there's one thing that will not change."
491
00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:33,623
"Our commitment
to the scientific exploration of space."
492
00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:55,353
[woman 1] The coolest thing
of the decade, possibly the century,
493
00:30:55,436 --> 00:30:56,563
is about to happen.
494
00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,314
The successor to the Hubble,
495
00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:01,109
three times as large
and way more technologically advanced,
496
00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:03,695
is about to be launched.
I'm going to start crying.
497
00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:08,741
[woman 2] Feliz Navidad. I got up
at 4:50 a.m. this morning
498
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:10,785
to watch the JWST launch.
499
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:14,873
[man] Just praying to all the science gods
that everything goes without a hitch,
500
00:31:14,956 --> 00:31:17,792
and that in six months,
we'll be able to get this wonderful data.
501
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:19,627
Merry Christmas, everyone.
502
00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:23,214
[controller] From the Jupiter Control
Center here in Kourou, French Guiana,
503
00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:28,136
you are looking live
at an Ariane 5 rocket on its launchpad,
504
00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:30,638
ready to send
the James Webb Space Telescope
505
00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:32,557
on the initial phase of its journey.
506
00:31:33,099 --> 00:31:38,187
[Thomas] Tens of thousands of scientists
are watching this launch right now.
507
00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:43,234
Their entire future depends
on the success of that launch.
508
00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:44,152
Merry Christmas!
509
00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:47,238
We're here and ready to watch
the James Webb Space Telescope launch.
510
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:49,782
[controller] Right now,
we have a green board,
511
00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:51,951
no issues as the countdown proceeds.
512
00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:56,539
No issues again being tracked
by the flight control team here in Kourou.
513
00:31:57,332 --> 00:31:59,709
I'm not a very superstitious man,
514
00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:01,044
but I am going to take
515
00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:05,673
three, uh-- three lucky charms
with me today.
516
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,800
I have my old man's taxi license.
517
00:32:08,718 --> 00:32:10,970
I have my grandfather Menzel's bow tie
518
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:13,389
and my grandfather DeLeo's logbook
519
00:32:13,473 --> 00:32:15,808
from his, uh--
when he was a private pilot.
520
00:32:15,892 --> 00:32:19,145
[female reporter] It's all looking
very good here at the spaceport
521
00:32:19,228 --> 00:32:21,230
for a Christmas Day launch.
522
00:32:21,314 --> 00:32:25,568
Operations running smoothly,
the countdown ticking over nicely,
523
00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:29,197
all the systems are green,
and we are go for launch.
524
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,406
[speaking French]
525
00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:32,492
[male reporter] The weather is go.
526
00:32:32,575 --> 00:32:36,245
NASA officials carefully, uh,
watching, uh, the telemetry,
527
00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:38,581
standing by for terminal count.
528
00:32:39,290 --> 00:32:42,043
[man in French] Ten, nine, eight…
529
00:32:42,126 --> 00:32:45,463
[in English] Seven, six, five,
530
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:49,634
four, three, two, one…
531
00:32:50,134 --> 00:32:51,552
[rumbling, crackling]
532
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:03,106
[clattering]
533
00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:07,402
[clanks]
534
00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:10,655
[cheering]
535
00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:22,917
[cheering]
536
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,803
[man] Whoo!
537
00:33:40,518 --> 00:33:42,020
[man in French] ESC shutdown.
538
00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,731
All onboard parameters are normal.
539
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:49,193
[male reporter in English] And we're about
17 seconds away from Webb separation.
540
00:33:50,278 --> 00:33:54,866
Springs will gently push Webb away
from the upper stage of the Ariane 5.
541
00:33:59,912 --> 00:34:01,956
[man in French]
Separation of the Webb Telescope.
542
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,791
-[in English] Go, Webb!
-[applause]
543
00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:05,877
[people cheering, applauding]
544
00:34:10,631 --> 00:34:12,133
[both chuckling]
545
00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:14,552
-Thank you. Yes!
-[Thomas] Congratulations, eh? My gosh.
546
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:18,598
[male reporter] We do have confirmation
of observatory separation,
547
00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:22,268
that will lead, uh, to the deployment
of Webb's solar array.
548
00:34:30,943 --> 00:34:36,199
Webb will remain on internal battery power
until its singular solar array unfurls.
549
00:34:38,284 --> 00:34:40,286
[people speaking indistinctly]
550
00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:01,265
[male reporter] Webb now, uh,
has its array out,
551
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,518
confirmation that it is power positive.
552
00:35:04,644 --> 00:35:06,938
-[engineer] Solar array is out.
-[applause]
553
00:35:07,021 --> 00:35:09,482
[laughing] All right! All right!
554
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:13,820
[people cheering, whistling]
555
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:17,448
[engineer laughing] Now we're talking!
556
00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:25,289
[dramatic music playing]
557
00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:31,671
[reporter 1] As it moves to its workplace
about a million miles away from Earth,
558
00:35:31,754 --> 00:35:35,174
it will be deployed
by the telescope controllers
559
00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:38,928
at the Mission Operations Center,
the MOC, as it's called.
560
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:41,013
[music intensifies]
561
00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,147
[reporter 2] Over the next few weeks,
Webb will continue deploying
562
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,274
its antennas, sunshield, and mirrors.
563
00:35:51,357 --> 00:35:53,985
Each procedure,
a critical and complicated step
564
00:35:54,068 --> 00:35:56,904
to fully assemble the seven-ton telescope.
565
00:35:57,780 --> 00:35:59,448
[reporter 3] The Webb Telescope is created
566
00:35:59,532 --> 00:36:01,200
by some of the brightest minds
in the world,
567
00:36:01,284 --> 00:36:04,787
and all of them are gonna be watching
at the edge of their seat.
568
00:36:04,871 --> 00:36:07,540
[reporter 4] Anything goes wrong
at any point,
569
00:36:07,623 --> 00:36:11,377
there's basically nothing
humankind can actually do about it.
570
00:36:15,756 --> 00:36:18,176
[Mike] Everybody's congratulating people
here about the launch,
571
00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:21,345
and we're all-- we're all very happy
for the congratulations.
572
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:24,932
But we all know that, you know,
the hard stuff is yet to come.
573
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,895
Deploying this telescope
is like rebuilding an IKEA desk
574
00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:31,272
from a million miles away, robotically.
575
00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:34,317
[humming]
576
00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:36,819
Webb's going about a mile a second.
577
00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:39,780
We'll be passing lunar orbit pretty soon,
578
00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:44,702
so we're close to 230,000 miles
away from us right now.
579
00:36:46,954 --> 00:36:49,081
Webb is traveling to the L2 point,
580
00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:51,375
a million miles away from the Earth.
581
00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:53,669
If you're here on the Earth
and want to see faint stars,
582
00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:56,672
you don't look at them from the city,
you go out to the country.
583
00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:00,885
So going out to L2, for us,
represents going out to the country.
584
00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:03,346
And it's a place
where the gravity of the Sun
585
00:37:03,429 --> 00:37:05,640
and the gravity of the Earth can combine
586
00:37:05,723 --> 00:37:09,101
to form a stable orbit around the Sun.
587
00:37:10,853 --> 00:37:14,440
It took the Apollo astronauts
roughly three days
588
00:37:14,523 --> 00:37:16,317
to go from the Earth to the Moon.
589
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,321
To get out to the L2 point,
it takes us about 30 days.
590
00:37:20,863 --> 00:37:23,282
And on its way out there, we're deploying.
591
00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:29,580
[man speaking indistinctly]
592
00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:31,582
[Scarlin Hernandez]
This is my first deployment.
593
00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:32,750
I feel nervous.
594
00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:37,255
Especially with this mission.
It can't be serviced, right?
595
00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,882
So any problems that arise,
any challenges,
596
00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:41,384
we have to take them head-on.
597
00:37:42,176 --> 00:37:44,095
There are hundreds of us working, uh,
598
00:37:44,178 --> 00:37:47,098
in the Mission Operations Center
around the clock,
599
00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:49,850
especially the flight operations team.
600
00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:53,813
We're able to communicate
with the telescope
601
00:37:53,896 --> 00:37:55,815
via this Mission Operations Center.
602
00:37:56,732 --> 00:38:00,194
We send commands to the telescope,
or blocks of code,
603
00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,989
to tell it what to do,
what activity to perform.
604
00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:07,243
We can't actually see
the telescope in space, it's too far,
605
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:10,997
so we have a tool
that's an animated model of the telescope,
606
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,833
where we can see the telescope unfolding.
607
00:38:17,253 --> 00:38:19,839
As a woman, being Latina,
608
00:38:19,922 --> 00:38:22,633
it makes me a unicorn in this industry.
609
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:26,929
And I didn't have anyone like me
to look up to in this space.
610
00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:31,183
I got my NASA badge
when I was 19 years old.
611
00:38:31,684 --> 00:38:37,106
I didn't expect to get there that fast,
to such a big and prestigious place.
612
00:38:37,189 --> 00:38:40,401
But as soon as I got there,
I knew I was going to make my mark.
613
00:38:41,277 --> 00:38:45,865
I develop code and procedures
for the deployment system.
614
00:38:46,532 --> 00:38:50,244
No matter what activity
we're performing on orbit,
615
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:54,749
all of those systems combined
have to function and flow as one.
616
00:39:04,258 --> 00:39:06,552
[controller 1] Dep OC,
that CR is pulled up.
617
00:39:06,635 --> 00:39:08,262
You have first command during the window.
618
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:10,598
[engineer 1] Proceed. We are good to go.
619
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,434
[engineer 2] Copy that. Code execute.
620
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:16,896
[controller 2] The command line
looks good. You're a go to execute.
621
00:39:16,979 --> 00:39:17,855
[Scarlin] Execute.
622
00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:20,358
[intriguing synth music playing]
623
00:39:21,692 --> 00:39:25,946
[Mike] Most of the single point failures
reside in the sunshield.
624
00:39:27,073 --> 00:39:30,242
-If these mechanisms don't release…
-[mechanism releasing]
625
00:39:30,785 --> 00:39:31,952
…that's a bad day.
626
00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:34,038
[intriguing synth music playing]
627
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:44,340
[clanks softly]
628
00:39:46,801 --> 00:39:49,929
[controller 2] Okay, Dep Lead,
your motor has moved to the hold state.
629
00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:53,015
-And you're go to continue.
-[Scarlin] Executing.
630
00:39:53,516 --> 00:39:55,518
[dramatic synth music playing]
631
00:40:11,742 --> 00:40:14,662
[controller 2] Copy that, boss.
I am happy with that move.
632
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:15,621
Continue.
633
00:40:22,962 --> 00:40:26,340
[Mike] No matter how many tests you do,
just like a parachute,
634
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,677
it's only going to be as good
as the last time you fold it.
635
00:40:30,553 --> 00:40:32,888
And you're never gonna know
how good that is
636
00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:35,474
until you jump out of the plane
and pull the rip cord.
637
00:40:35,558 --> 00:40:36,851
[music continues]
638
00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:51,866
[controller 3] Go to proceed onto step 031
for the group six.
639
00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:56,245
[controller 2] Copy. On the wing.
640
00:40:59,999 --> 00:41:03,169
[controller 3] And OC, that looks good.
You are go to continue.
641
00:41:03,711 --> 00:41:07,047
[controller 2] Good to go. Proceed.
Go ahead and continue with a go.
642
00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:10,301
Proc looks good. You're go to execute.
643
00:41:12,094 --> 00:41:13,095
[Scarlin] Executing.
644
00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:16,474
[controller 1] You are go to fire.
645
00:41:16,557 --> 00:41:19,310
[controller 2] Good to go.
Let's see how they both fire.
646
00:41:26,358 --> 00:41:30,112
And OC, you are go to execute deploy.
647
00:41:30,196 --> 00:41:31,238
[Scarlin] Execute.
648
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:40,539
[controller 4] I can confirm
that all five layers of the sunshield
649
00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:42,166
are fully tensioned.
650
00:41:42,249 --> 00:41:44,376
[cheers and applause]
651
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:45,294
[man] All right!
652
00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:47,588
Thank you, Dep Lead.
653
00:41:48,422 --> 00:41:51,884
Significant milestone accomplished.
Job well done, sunshield team.
654
00:41:51,967 --> 00:41:53,177
Job well done.
655
00:41:53,844 --> 00:41:57,056
[Mike] All right, congratulations,
everybody. Congratulations.
656
00:41:58,390 --> 00:41:59,308
It was a good day.
657
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,520
You know, it was hard-- hard to predict,
and there it is.
658
00:42:02,603 --> 00:42:04,980
Cooling the telescope,
just the way it should.
659
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:06,357
It is a beautiful thing.
660
00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:11,529
As of right now,
we, uh-- we have eliminated 266
661
00:42:12,154 --> 00:42:15,282
of the 344 single point failures.
662
00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:18,244
They can't fail because they're
no longer needed, they worked.
663
00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:20,579
But you got to maintain
the sense of caution,
664
00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:22,748
because there's still some stuff to go.
665
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:24,833
[dramatic synth music playing]
666
00:42:40,432 --> 00:42:41,934
-[man] Morning, Thomas.
-Hey, everybody.
667
00:42:42,017 --> 00:42:43,477
-[man] Morning.
-[woman] Good morning.
668
00:42:43,561 --> 00:42:44,687
[Thomas] Good to see you.
669
00:42:44,770 --> 00:42:47,565
[controller 1] Stations at Madrid
are green and standing by for handover.
670
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:50,442
[controller 2] And OC, Dep Ops on ops.
671
00:42:50,526 --> 00:42:54,530
Dep Lead has verified those parameters.
We are go with the motor move.
672
00:42:54,613 --> 00:42:56,699
[dramatic music playing]
673
00:42:56,782 --> 00:42:59,201
[Mike] If the wings
of the primary mirror didn't latch,
674
00:42:59,285 --> 00:43:02,580
they would actually vibrate
in ways that we didn't want them to.
675
00:43:03,330 --> 00:43:06,792
And that vibration would actually show up
as a blurring of the image.
676
00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,466
[controller 3] We have reached
our full preload, so at this time…
677
00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:18,095
-[man] Oh, wow, that's it.
-…we are go to proceed onto step 046
678
00:43:18,178 --> 00:43:21,098
to enable and activate SCS-256.
679
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:25,227
[controller 4] Dep Ops,
this is Dep Lead on deployment,
680
00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:26,729
and those parameters look good.
681
00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:29,940
[controller 5] Copy,
proceeding with motor move.
682
00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:33,068
[Thomas] Come on, ball. Pitch it in there.
683
00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:38,282
-Look, it's starting to come out.
-[man] You can see it moving. Yeah.
684
00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:41,994
[suspenseful music playing]
685
00:43:52,463 --> 00:43:55,090
[Thomas] All right,
we're almost halfway there at 54.
686
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:03,474
Look at that.
687
00:44:05,059 --> 00:44:07,728
-[man] It's coming in.
-[Thomas] Yeah. Keep going.
688
00:44:09,396 --> 00:44:10,814
[music continues]
689
00:44:15,277 --> 00:44:17,529
-Ninety-five now. Ninety-six.
-[man] Yeah.
690
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:18,947
[Thomas sighs]
691
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:24,203
-There we go!
-[man] Alright.
692
00:44:24,703 --> 00:44:25,537
[all] Four…
693
00:44:28,624 --> 00:44:33,295
three, two, one.
694
00:44:37,966 --> 00:44:41,303
[controller 4] And we have
a fully deployed JWST observatory.
695
00:44:41,387 --> 00:44:43,389
[cheering]
696
00:44:52,356 --> 00:44:53,982
-[man 1] Whoo-hoo!
-[man 2] Primary mirror.
697
00:44:54,066 --> 00:44:56,610
-[Thomas] We're there!
-[man 2] That sure looks beautiful.
698
00:44:57,152 --> 00:44:57,986
[man 1] Yeah.
699
00:44:59,029 --> 00:45:00,447
-[man 2] Whoo!
-[man 1] Wow.
700
00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:01,532
[man 1 exhales]
701
00:45:01,615 --> 00:45:02,825
[Thomas] God Almighty.
702
00:45:02,908 --> 00:45:04,284
[man 2] How hard was that?
703
00:45:04,368 --> 00:45:07,037
-[applause]
-[laughing]
704
00:45:10,332 --> 00:45:12,876
-[Mike] I was looking for you, first.
-[laughing]
705
00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:15,629
[Thomas] Talk to me. How are you feeling?
706
00:45:15,713 --> 00:45:17,172
[Mike chuckles] How the record is,
707
00:45:17,256 --> 00:45:19,675
it's been going smoother
than we ever thought.
708
00:45:19,758 --> 00:45:21,510
So to actually
see it-- see it come together
709
00:45:21,593 --> 00:45:23,762
the way it did was beautiful.
710
00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:32,813
[Scarlin] Everything went so smoothly,
just really exciting.
711
00:45:33,313 --> 00:45:36,692
Wanted to pop some champagne,
but unfortunately, I didn't have any so…
712
00:45:36,775 --> 00:45:38,527
[laughs]
713
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:45,492
[Thomas] I want to tell you just how
excited and emotional I am right now.
714
00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:49,163
We have a deployed telescope on orbit.
715
00:45:49,246 --> 00:45:52,624
I personally appreciate your sacrifice
716
00:45:52,708 --> 00:45:55,210
that you've given
to this magnificent telescope,
717
00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:57,421
the likes of which
the world has never seen.
718
00:45:57,504 --> 00:45:59,840
So how does it feel
to make history, everybody?
719
00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:01,550
[man laughs] It feels awesome!
720
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:06,430
[gentle piano music playing]
721
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,020
[music continues]
722
00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:20,486
[woman] JWST has completed
all of its major deployments.
723
00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:23,572
Things are going spectacular.
724
00:46:23,655 --> 00:46:26,784
We have the biggest,
most complex observatory
725
00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:30,579
we've ever sent to space,
and we can expect some awesome images.
726
00:46:31,330 --> 00:46:33,081
Y'all, we did it!
727
00:46:36,877 --> 00:46:40,464
[Amber] It's hard to conceptualize
what those first images will be.
728
00:46:41,215 --> 00:46:43,675
I study how galaxies change over time,
729
00:46:43,759 --> 00:46:46,970
so I'm interested
in how stars form in galaxies,
730
00:46:47,054 --> 00:46:50,557
and how black holes form,
and how those processes change over time.
731
00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:56,104
So, I am most excited
for the deep field images.
732
00:46:56,897 --> 00:46:59,483
It's in these deep fields
that we will be able to see
733
00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:01,276
the most distant galaxies.
734
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,113
But it's about a million miles from Earth,
735
00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:08,367
and there is definitely still a lot
that could go wrong.
736
00:47:08,450 --> 00:47:09,910
There always is.
737
00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:14,498
[Mike] There are still 49 single point
failure items that never go away.
738
00:47:14,581 --> 00:47:17,793
And if any of those
single point failure items fails,
739
00:47:17,876 --> 00:47:19,586
we can lose the mission.
740
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,672
[suspenseful string music plays]
741
00:47:24,049 --> 00:47:26,885
[announcer] An embarrassingly blurred
Hubble Telescope.
742
00:47:26,969 --> 00:47:30,514
One of the telescope's two mirrors
is thought to be defective,
743
00:47:30,597 --> 00:47:32,057
blurring its images.
744
00:47:32,140 --> 00:47:36,103
The Hubble Space Telescope,
we turn it on, it was out of focus.
745
00:47:37,145 --> 00:47:40,148
The primary mirror,
the focal length was wrong.
746
00:47:40,983 --> 00:47:45,279
It was a disaster for many scientists
that had counted on these images.
747
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,491
[Amber] To the astronomers working on it
at the time, I can't imagine what--
748
00:47:49,575 --> 00:47:50,993
what a letdown that was.
749
00:47:51,076 --> 00:47:52,160
It was bad, you know?
750
00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:53,912
Even for me as a kid, I remember.
751
00:47:53,996 --> 00:47:55,080
Like, "Oh, no!"
752
00:47:55,163 --> 00:47:56,790
[man] Jeff, you'll have your hands full.
753
00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:59,376
You might wanna go ahead
and put your helmet lights on.
754
00:48:00,335 --> 00:48:01,378
Good idea.
755
00:48:01,461 --> 00:48:05,340
[Thomas] Astronauts went up there
and included a little optical piece.
756
00:48:05,424 --> 00:48:09,303
Almost a little-- Like, glasses, right,
that fixed that focal length.
757
00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:13,515
[cheering]
758
00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:15,434
-One bright pixel.
-[man 1] Right there!
759
00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:16,685
[man 2] Oh! Ho-ho-ho!
760
00:48:16,768 --> 00:48:18,061
[man 3] There, there, there.
761
00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:20,480
-[man 2] We can see the pixels.
-We did it!
762
00:48:22,482 --> 00:48:24,484
[Thomas] The hard part about Webb,
763
00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:26,111
it's too far away.
764
00:48:26,194 --> 00:48:29,698
If there's any problem,
we cannot send astronauts to fix it.
765
00:48:34,536 --> 00:48:35,829
[controller talking indistinctly]
766
00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:37,748
[Mike] We'll align the telescope.
767
00:48:38,457 --> 00:48:40,083
Essentially, refocusing it.
768
00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:43,086
That's a complicated process.
769
00:48:47,049 --> 00:48:51,011
[Amber] The ghost of Hubble definitely
haunts this team and has for decades.
770
00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:56,058
[Mike] Many of my mentors
were involved in Hubble.
771
00:48:56,141 --> 00:48:58,977
They all warned me
about what that bad day is like.
772
00:48:59,061 --> 00:49:03,607
That it's public, it's visible, it's ugly,
and you don't want to live through that.
773
00:49:03,690 --> 00:49:05,692
[indistinct chatter]
774
00:49:08,654 --> 00:49:12,449
So over the last few hours,
we have taken a bunch of calibration data
775
00:49:12,532 --> 00:49:14,451
to measure the state of the telescope.
776
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,204
Literally none of us
have looked at this yet.
777
00:49:18,538 --> 00:49:19,456
There we go.
778
00:49:19,539 --> 00:49:21,541
[all exclaiming]
779
00:49:23,043 --> 00:49:24,419
[man 1] Galaxies all over.
780
00:49:24,503 --> 00:49:25,420
[woman] Galaxies.
781
00:49:27,297 --> 00:49:29,800
[man 2] There are a lot more galaxies
than there are stars.
782
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:32,511
It is just gorgeous and sharp.
783
00:49:33,136 --> 00:49:34,888
This is how it's supposed to be.
784
00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:36,056
[man 3] He's correct.
785
00:49:50,862 --> 00:49:53,699
[reporter] Six months after
the most powerful telescope ever made
786
00:49:53,782 --> 00:49:55,158
launched into space,
787
00:49:55,242 --> 00:49:58,870
the team inside the Webb Space Telescope's
flight control room is preparing
788
00:49:58,954 --> 00:50:01,498
to reveal what astronomers
all over the world
789
00:50:01,581 --> 00:50:04,167
have been waiting for for decades,
790
00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:06,878
the telescope's first full-color images.
791
00:50:08,672 --> 00:50:11,925
You think this is, like,
the best, sort of, orientation for this…
792
00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:13,844
-For this grouping?
-Yeah, you know…
793
00:50:13,927 --> 00:50:15,345
I've tried different rotations,
794
00:50:15,429 --> 00:50:17,305
but because it is, like,
basically a square,
795
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:18,724
-we can do whatever we want.
-Yeah.
796
00:50:19,474 --> 00:50:23,270
[Alyssa] That infrared information
is giving us so much more detail
797
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:26,023
than we could get with the Hubble
in the visible.
798
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:27,691
But to actually see it,
799
00:50:27,774 --> 00:50:31,486
and you're like, "There's just no…
There's no doubting it now."
800
00:50:32,112 --> 00:50:34,364
[DePasquale] The raw material
we get from the telescope
801
00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:36,241
starts out as a black-and-white image.
802
00:50:36,324 --> 00:50:37,868
Then I dive down into the pixels
803
00:50:37,951 --> 00:50:40,954
and make the color image pop
as much as possible.
804
00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:44,249
Because really, the-- the job
is trying to unearth
805
00:50:44,332 --> 00:50:46,710
the-- the richness and the complexity
of the data
806
00:50:46,793 --> 00:50:49,504
without changing anything in the data.
It's all there.
807
00:50:49,588 --> 00:50:51,631
The universe is, sort of,
hiding in the darkness,
808
00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:53,258
and we have to bring it out.
809
00:50:53,842 --> 00:50:55,844
The colors in the image
are really important.
810
00:50:55,927 --> 00:50:57,512
They have astrophysical meaning.
811
00:50:57,596 --> 00:51:00,015
We work with the scientists
directly on this
812
00:51:00,098 --> 00:51:02,934
and-- and get their take
on what they're seeing in these images.
813
00:51:03,518 --> 00:51:07,272
This is the red channel of the image,
although it's black and white. This is--
814
00:51:07,355 --> 00:51:09,983
When I combine everything in color,
this will be red.
815
00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:13,361
And so every distant galaxy in here,
all these faint fuzzy objects,
816
00:51:13,445 --> 00:51:16,865
these are gonna be the ones
that show up and really pop as red.
817
00:51:16,948 --> 00:51:18,784
Then I can bring in
the green channel here,
818
00:51:18,867 --> 00:51:21,536
and now you're seeing,
as color comes to life,
819
00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:22,746
just red and green.
820
00:51:22,829 --> 00:51:27,542
And the greens are confined
more to the, sort of, nearby galaxies,
821
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:28,960
and, of course, the stars.
822
00:51:29,628 --> 00:51:32,798
And then, when I bring in
the short wavelengths in blue,
823
00:51:32,881 --> 00:51:34,091
the image comes to life.
824
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,303
These images have been so precious.
They're like our children.
825
00:51:38,386 --> 00:51:40,597
And, like, we've been, like,
you know, nurturing them,
826
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,308
trying to get them ready
for when they're revealed to the world.
827
00:51:43,391 --> 00:51:45,393
I think that's just an important moment,
828
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:48,146
because it's not just
an important feat for science.
829
00:51:48,230 --> 00:51:50,565
I think it's-- it's
an important feat for humanity.
830
00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:52,734
And I think it's, like,
a very exciting time.
831
00:51:52,818 --> 00:51:55,028
And to be a part of something
I think is so important
832
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:56,822
is just a huge honor.
833
00:51:59,157 --> 00:52:02,911
[reporter 1] Today, our understanding
of the universe is about to get clearer.
834
00:52:02,994 --> 00:52:05,038
[reporter 2] It is.
President Biden's going to unveil
835
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,833
the much-anticipated
first full-color image
836
00:52:07,916 --> 00:52:10,127
from NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
837
00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:14,714
[Klaus Pontoppidan] I think we should
start with the image the President
838
00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:16,007
is unveiling tonight.
839
00:52:16,091 --> 00:52:17,425
-If that's okay?
-Perfect.
840
00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:20,470
This is what we call
Webb's first deep field.
841
00:52:21,221 --> 00:52:24,599
Uh, this was the original reason
for the observatory.
842
00:52:24,683 --> 00:52:28,895
And we think this is
the deepest view of the universe so far.
843
00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:29,813
So…
844
00:52:33,608 --> 00:52:34,901
-Please.
-Wow.
845
00:52:35,735 --> 00:52:37,487
-[Pontoppidan] So…
-Wow.
846
00:52:37,571 --> 00:52:40,240
So the deepest Hubble images
took weeks to do.
847
00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:41,950
We did this in a few hours.
848
00:52:42,033 --> 00:52:44,411
-What you see is a…
-[Bill] Beautiful.
849
00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:46,705
…is a massive galaxy cluster.
850
00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:51,334
When we look at a swirl like that,
is that an entire galaxy?
851
00:52:51,418 --> 00:52:52,419
[Klaus] An entire galaxy.
852
00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:54,462
Every point you see here,
almost, is a galaxy.
853
00:52:54,546 --> 00:52:56,548
There's more than 7,000 in this picture.
854
00:52:56,631 --> 00:52:58,133
Galaxies that we did not--
855
00:52:58,216 --> 00:53:00,218
-Seven thousand in this picture?
-Mm-hmm.
856
00:53:00,302 --> 00:53:04,598
The size of this field
is if you take a grain of sand,
857
00:53:04,681 --> 00:53:06,016
and you hold it out--
858
00:53:06,099 --> 00:53:07,350
-Yeah.
-That's the angle.
859
00:53:07,434 --> 00:53:09,269
It's a tiny field in the sky.
860
00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:13,565
And everywhere else we have looked,
the sky is filled with galaxies.
861
00:53:13,648 --> 00:53:15,192
We see them immediately.
862
00:53:15,275 --> 00:53:17,611
-See the little red dot there?
-[Bill] Yes.
863
00:53:17,694 --> 00:53:20,071
-It is the most distant one we found.
-[Bill] My goodness.
864
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:22,866
-[Klaus] That's 13.1 billion years.
-[Bill] Wow.
865
00:53:23,408 --> 00:53:24,826
[Klaus] We're going to show that--
866
00:53:24,910 --> 00:53:29,414
-The universe is 13.8 billion years old.
-[Klaus] That's right.
867
00:53:29,998 --> 00:53:34,628
When I describe this to the President,
what do you want me to tell him?
868
00:53:35,128 --> 00:53:37,756
What you're looking at is our own origin
869
00:53:38,256 --> 00:53:43,803
and the origin of every galaxy
and star in the universe.
870
00:53:44,679 --> 00:53:47,933
-That's our history, right there.
-[Klaus] It is-- It is our whole history.
871
00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:50,060
[Thomas] Our whole history is right there.
872
00:53:50,143 --> 00:53:55,065
The more that we find
this cosmos is so large,
873
00:53:56,066 --> 00:54:00,362
I want to know who I am and what I am.
874
00:54:01,821 --> 00:54:05,492
And how do I fit in all of this?
875
00:54:06,868 --> 00:54:11,122
[Biden] Today is a historic day
for America and all of humanity.
876
00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:12,374
We're gonna get a glimpse
877
00:54:12,457 --> 00:54:15,502
of the oldest documented light
in the history of the universe
878
00:54:15,585 --> 00:54:18,171
from over 13 billion--
879
00:54:18,255 --> 00:54:21,967
Let me say that again,
13 billion years ago.
880
00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:23,677
It's hard to even fathom.
881
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,554
And now let's take a look
at the very first image
882
00:54:26,638 --> 00:54:28,682
from this miraculous telescope.
883
00:54:28,765 --> 00:54:30,767
[dreamy music playing]
884
00:54:30,850 --> 00:54:32,852
[applause]
885
00:54:34,896 --> 00:54:36,898
[dreamy music continues]
886
00:54:47,325 --> 00:54:48,910
Oh my gosh!
887
00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:51,579
The first image
from the James Webb Space Telescope.
888
00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:53,164
And here it is.
889
00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:56,334
Uh, galaxies to the edge of time.
890
00:54:56,418 --> 00:54:58,336
Oh my gosh.
891
00:54:58,420 --> 00:54:59,796
[laughs] Okay…
892
00:54:59,879 --> 00:55:01,047
[exclaims softly] Ooh!
893
00:55:05,802 --> 00:55:06,803
Wow.
894
00:55:09,306 --> 00:55:10,724
It really is amazing.
895
00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:13,184
Oh, my God.
896
00:55:17,355 --> 00:55:18,398
I have no words.
897
00:55:19,024 --> 00:55:21,735
The whole thing
is a bit mind-boggling, everybody.
898
00:55:21,818 --> 00:55:23,820
It's just-- It's just fantastic.
899
00:55:23,903 --> 00:55:26,823
-Ah! Can you see the arcs?
-[woman] Yeah.
900
00:55:26,906 --> 00:55:30,076
-It's… It's max clusters.
-[man] It's amazing, right?
901
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,829
It's a pretty cool photo.
It's just gorgeous.
902
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:34,456
Oh, my gosh!
903
00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:38,084
[in Arabic] Another message
they're trying to convey through us,
904
00:55:38,168 --> 00:55:39,794
is that this type of research is called...
905
00:55:39,878 --> 00:55:42,130
[in Russian] …with the space telescope
James Webb…
906
00:55:42,213 --> 00:55:44,632
[in Spanish] We have never seen it before
and we owe it
907
00:55:44,716 --> 00:55:46,134
to the James Webb Space Telescope.
908
00:55:46,217 --> 00:55:48,595
The reaction of myself
and all my colleagues
909
00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,930
was of sheer joyful amazement.
910
00:55:51,014 --> 00:55:53,933
That image made us giddy when we saw it.
911
00:55:54,017 --> 00:55:56,519
We knew in our hearts
that whatever's out there,
912
00:55:56,603 --> 00:55:57,771
we're going to see it.
913
00:55:57,854 --> 00:55:59,689
[people chanting] JWST!
914
00:55:59,773 --> 00:56:04,569
JWST! JWST! JWST!
915
00:56:04,652 --> 00:56:05,528
[people cheering]
916
00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:15,372
[female reporter] So, let's get ready
to reveal our image.
917
00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:17,082
There it is.
918
00:56:17,165 --> 00:56:20,251
-It's called Stephan's Quintet.
-[man] Oh!
919
00:56:20,335 --> 00:56:22,253
-And it's wondrous.
-[man] Oh!
920
00:56:22,337 --> 00:56:24,339
-Giovanni, what do you think?
-[applause]
921
00:56:27,258 --> 00:56:29,177
The rays coming through.
922
00:56:29,761 --> 00:56:30,762
It's like fog.
923
00:56:31,429 --> 00:56:33,431
[dreamy synth music playing]
924
00:56:51,241 --> 00:56:54,202
[Amber] The Pillars of Creation is
a star-forming region
925
00:56:54,285 --> 00:56:56,037
within our Milky Way galaxy.
926
00:56:56,871 --> 00:56:59,582
Each of the dots of light
that we're seeing in this image
927
00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:02,752
is a star not unlike our own sun.
928
00:57:03,711 --> 00:57:06,881
We, our own solar system,
and even ourselves,
929
00:57:06,965 --> 00:57:09,092
were born out of the same material
930
00:57:09,175 --> 00:57:11,386
that we're seeing
in these beautiful images.
931
00:57:11,469 --> 00:57:14,848
The iron in our blood
and the calcium in our bones
932
00:57:14,931 --> 00:57:19,644
was literally formed out of a star
that exploded billions of years ago.
933
00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:24,941
Newborn stars are enshrouded in dust.
934
00:57:25,024 --> 00:57:27,610
We need to be able to see
through that dust,
935
00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:30,071
and infrared light allows us to do that.
936
00:57:40,081 --> 00:57:44,544
This is a dying star
in its last gasp of its life.
937
00:58:01,478 --> 00:58:03,813
This beautiful view
of the Cartwheel Galaxy
938
00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:07,442
gives us a closer look at what happens
when galaxies collide.
939
00:58:25,335 --> 00:58:29,923
The new discoveries from JWST in the field
of exoplanet science are just incredible.
940
00:58:30,632 --> 00:58:35,595
There was this recent discovery
of carbon dioxide in a gas giant planet
941
00:58:35,678 --> 00:58:39,557
orbiting a Sun-like star
about 700 light years away.
942
00:58:39,641 --> 00:58:43,853
It really is the first clear,
detailed evidence for carbon dioxide
943
00:58:43,937 --> 00:58:46,898
ever detected in a planet
outside the solar system.
944
00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:50,485
[music fades]
945
00:58:51,736 --> 00:58:53,446
Still, it just blows me away.
946
00:58:56,032 --> 00:58:57,825
It's overwhelming. I mean…
947
00:58:57,909 --> 00:58:59,035
[chuckles]
948
00:59:01,162 --> 00:59:02,705
Yeah, it's a bit overwhelming.
949
00:59:07,460 --> 00:59:10,964
I think it's so-- it's such a good example
of what, you know,
950
00:59:11,047 --> 00:59:15,552
what we humans can do
when we work together for something good.
951
00:59:15,635 --> 00:59:17,595
There's so much bad
in the world right now.
952
00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:18,930
It's a really tough time.
953
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:23,476
And this is… this is good.
954
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,895
This is a-- a little bit of light…
955
00:59:25,979 --> 00:59:29,107
[chuckles] …in what is otherwise
a little bit of a dark time,
956
00:59:29,190 --> 00:59:31,109
I think, for sure.
957
00:59:32,735 --> 00:59:34,737
[intriguing piano music playing]
958
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[Thomas] Webb is a demonstration
of what's possible
959
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when we come together
and, uh, do something hard.
960
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Ten thousand people,
all of them with strengths and weaknesses,
961
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all of them with many reasons
why it shouldn't work,
962
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coming together as an excellent team,
and being successful at it.
963
01:00:03,933 --> 01:00:04,976
We can do that,
964
01:00:05,059 --> 01:00:07,604
imagine all the other problems
we can solve.
965
01:00:08,229 --> 01:00:13,234
So for me, it's-- Yeah, it's that hope
that is up there in-- in space now, right?
966
01:00:13,318 --> 01:00:15,862
You know, demonstrating
its power every day.
967
01:00:19,157 --> 01:00:21,075
[Scarlin] We made history,
that we're looking back
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01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:23,286
13 and a half billion years.
969
01:00:24,162 --> 01:00:26,748
I feel proud. I feel filled with hope.
970
01:00:27,248 --> 01:00:30,251
You know, because these images today
just show the world
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01:00:30,335 --> 01:00:32,837
that there's so much more
to explore in our universe
972
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:34,547
and how we're connected.
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01:00:35,757 --> 01:00:37,467
This is only the beginning.
974
01:00:40,178 --> 01:00:44,015
[Mike] I hope I can tell my grandkids
I was on the team that built the telescope
975
01:00:44,098 --> 01:00:46,851
that'll solve
the really, really big question.
976
01:00:46,934 --> 01:00:48,478
Right? "Are we alone or not?"
977
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Every space telescope that's been put up
978
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has found something
they just didn't anticipate.
979
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,819
And I hope with something
the size of James Webb
980
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that, you know,
we see something completely,
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completely unexpected.
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01:01:09,624 --> 01:01:11,376
[music ends]
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