Webb

The first man that succeed in swimming the Channel was Captain Webb.

When he was thirty years old, he married Lucy Webb.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a large space telescope scheduled to launch in October 2018.

The study of worlds outside our solar system will be continued by future spacecraft, such as NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and James Webb Space Telescope.

The Webb telescope will use infrared light to examine in detail the extrasolar planetary systems found by TESS and other telescopes.

The James Webb telescope will study the chemical makeup of extrasolar planets' atmospheres.

The venerable observatory, with its suite of cameras and other instruments, is expected to stay operational through the 2020s, in synergy with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

“The primary mirror is a technological marvel. The lightweight mirrors, coatings, actuators and mechanisms, electronics and thermal blankets when fully deployed form a single precise mirror that is truly remarkable,” said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Pioneering space observatories like Webb only come to fruition when dedicated individuals work together to surmount the challenge of building something that has never been done before.

I am especially proud of our teams that built Webb’s mirrors, and the complex back-end electronics and software that will empower it to see deep into space with extreme precision.