"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." In the case of JWST, it's more like a million miles, but still. You can find updates on the telescope's location in space and current deployment step here: https://webb.nasa.gov/whereiswebb (Vid: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) | The Planetary Society

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JWST is ready for launch and amazing science! This week on Planetary Radio, three scientists working on the mission share what they hope the telescope will reveal about our universe after launch. What do you hope JWST will achieve? Listen or read it here: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2021-jwst-pre-launch-rene-doyon-heidi-hammel-mike-mcelwain | The Planetary Society

"...one of the wonderful challenges about astronomy is that we have to imagine something so we can go look for it. But nature has a way of being even more creative than we are; so we have always been surprised by what we see in the sky. That’s why building a telescope has always been interesting. Every time we build a better one, we see something we never imagined was out there." - Dr. John Mather Learn more about the science goals of the James Webb Space Telescope with Dr. Amber Straughn and Dr