James Webb Space Telescope: NASA Successfully launches $10B Space Telescope
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's journey beyond stars is officially underway. The space agency got exactly what it wanted for Christmas with the successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Folded inside the nose cone of the European Ariane 5 rocket, the $10B space observatory lifted off from its launch site Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana early Christmas morning. NASA's James Webb space telescope represents a new era in space discovery. The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA's largest and most expensive scientific probe ever sent into space. As each rocket stage fell away, Webb was set loose. Cheers went up and images of the earth receded as the most powerful space telescope ever build began a voyage in search of the birth of the universe. It's going to replace the 31 year old Hubble Space Telescope as the premiere space observatory. Hubble telescope revealed stars and galaxies ...