James Webb IR telescope successfully launched

On a slight different angle I am remembering how the European Philae probe was almost completely useless because they had it powered with solar when it needed to be powered with nuclear. They were afraid to launch a nuclear probe in case it did not escape Earth, so they sacrificed the mission as it turned out.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am a little surprised that the WOKE have been unable to change the name.

They are not at all happy.
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Which Jim Webb is this ? I thought it was the utterly horrible democrat ex-Virginia senator.
They didnt seem to mind him being a pedo-porn author. Oddly enough it was kind of a plus.
 
Celticguy said:
Which Jim Webb is this ? I thought it was the utterly horrible democrat ex-Virginia senator.
They didnt seem to mind him being a pedo-porn author. Oddly enough it was kind of a plus.
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James E. Webb ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science.

The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science.

A Balance Between Human Space Flight And Science
Yet, many believe that James E. Webb, who ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968, did more for science than perhaps any other government official and that it is only fitting that the Next Generation Space Telescope would be named after him.

(High-res pic available, credit: NASA)

Webb's record of support for space science would support those views. Although President John Kennedy had committed the nation to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade, Webb believed that the space program was more than a political race. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science because such a combination would serve as a catalyst for strengthening the nation's universities and aerospace industry.

As part of an oral history project sponsored by the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, Webb recalled his conversations with Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. He was quoted as saying in one transcript, "And so far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to run a program that's just a one-shot program. If you want me to be the administrator, it's going to be a balanced program that does the job for the country..."

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/whoIsJamesWebb.html
 
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moon said:
Both were humans, dumbass.
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Since you are an absolute idiot about muzzieism ... al-lah is the moon god ... never was a human

To bad you don't take the time to learn something instead of continually showing your ignorance.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am a little surprised that the WOKE have been unable to change the name.

They are not at all happy.
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It is less disappointing that the telescope was named after a dead, crusty, white homophobic prick than it is exciting that our space exploration continues.
 
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What a pity that they didn't have a queer, black, swimmer, skate doctor, transgender who identifies as a something rude, ivy league drop out, who got wounded moving boxes in the commissary, who worked on the ho's campaign, while pretending to have a lieyer license, and drove a vehicle that killed lots of people to name that very expensive and potentially useful in bringing in multitudes of scientific data after ...

WHAT A LOSS ...
 
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