NASA’s James Webb Telescope Launch Is About to Make History

The James Webb Space Telescope is FINALLY ready for launch. It’s taken over two decades, thousands of international scientists, and billions of dollars to get to this point. » Here’s a recap on the James Webb Space Telescope: » Subscribe to Seeker! » Watch more Countdown to Launch: » Visit our shop at Webb has been in the works since the mid-90s, and today is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and many other academic and industry partners. When it was first proposed, the telescope had one major goal: peer back 13.5 billion years to see the first galaxies. Light from those far-off galaxies has been stretched through our ever-expanding universe. By the time it reaches Webb’s mirrors, it’s stretched out of our visible light spectrum into the infrared regio