B-roll Footage of James Webb Space Telescope's Move to NASA's Johnson Space Center 

Well said.

Exactly Mark - I echo your sentiments. It's easy to "ignore" the contributions made by the less-well-known personnel whose input is nevertheless vital. I would gladly be the coffee-boy in this environment - just to be part of the amazing team of people far more capable and intelligent than me. Everyone involved can be duly proud of this incredible achievement.

Ditto. Rock the World!

Thanks ALL you, this Very important for humanity.

One of the best comment ever read about a video on RU-vid! THANKS!!!

May 2021 if everything goes right, ive been following this for years too. I hope im still alive for that date

I've been waiting since the mid to late 1990's when I first heard about it lol

Its been a long road

When is the launch time ? I am from Russia I am waiting too

No chance.

Offset of course by how freaking cool it would be to part of that team!

Imagine the stress when they load it into a rocket and shoot it a million miles out past the moon.

I dunno.... it's pretty strong. They're going to strap it to the top of a rocket and fire it into space. It's a tough cookie.

This telescope will bring humanity to a new level of understanding. I get nervous when thinking a simple crane could fail and destroy it. Or the plane could crash. There are million things that can go wrong. There won't be a backup.

Imagine the background check that semi driver has to go through

Annnndd...boom 35 years of delays and it blows up on launch.

its gonna blow our minds beyond expectations for sure. Its a guarantee.

Too bad it will never launch :P 2030 if youre lucky, but by then it will be obsolete and china will have better telescopes in orbit so it won't matter.

The longest

i dont even know if ill have the guts to watch it. itll be so nerve racking to see something that has gone through so much work risk being blown up

I hope everything goes well also! But the launch date is still two year out?

They still have 35 years before its launched to figure it all out.

This was more than 2 years ago, it went well.

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I hope everything goes well.

The Peterbuilt came with it. Didn’t expect that.

AMAZING!!!!

1:52 to 2:45 C-5M SUPER GALAXY aircraft

C-5 is huge aircraft.

That long truck and trailer coming out of the plane was badass!

this videos from 2017. idk wtf they are doing but its not ready

A lot of people will be stressed TF out during launch. And imagine if it doesn't unfold properly. I fear they've made it too complicated, too many things can go wrong. #fingerscrossed

@@theuniversewithin74 The fact they can't service it if anything goes wrong during the self assembly is terrifying. Especially considering the Hubble Telescope needed serviced multiple times in order to become and stay operational. I imagine that is why it is taking sooooo long to get it up into space.

Well, it hasn't unfolded yet, ya know. ;-)

Literally 😆

One of the coolest things Ive seen!

We will.

No. Game changer will be if this thing fails on launch, or deploy. I would cringe to be the launch director for this thing!

Yes!!!!

Yeah if, my fingers are crossed.

TheCaptainsArse game changer hell yeah. We’ll discover other life with this one.

I am happy for two reasons. It is a really outstanding performance of human reason. And it wasn't founded with my taxes. :D

But rocket vibrations are a known and studied thing and we can test for the forces it will experience on a rocket. Read more here: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-completes-acoustic-and-vibration-tests and here: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-webb-is-sound-after-completing-critical-milestones

The sunshield membranes are made 5 layers of Kapton E with aluminum and doped-silicon coatings. (Read more here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/coating.html) The hot side will be so hot you could nearly boil water, and on the cold side, you could freeze nitrogen. Kapton was chosen as the sunshield material because of its thermal properties. Everything on the spacecraft is tested to make sure it can withstand cycling temperatures during testing, as well as the operational temperatures in space. You can read more about the most recent thermal testing here: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges-successfully-from-final-thermal-vacuum-test