From Vision to RealityĮngineers and astronomers innovated new ways to meet the Webb telescope’s scientific demands, as well as a mission at an unserviceable distance from Earth. Also in 2002, the telescope was formally named the James Webb Space Telescope, after the NASA administrator who led the development of the Apollo program. By 2002, the agency had selected the teams to build the instruments and the group of astronomers who would provide construction guidance. NASA agreed in 1997 to fund additional studies to refine the technical and financial requirements for building the telescope.
All three came to the conclusion that the proposed telescope would work. Three teams made up of scientists and engineers from the private and public sectors met to determine whether NASA could realize the committee’s vision. It would have a mirror with a diameter of more than four meters, and operate in an orbit well beyond Earth’s moon. In 1996, an 18-member committee led by astronomer Alan Dressler formally recommended that NASA develop a space telescope that would view the heavens in infrared light-the wavelength band that enables astronomers to see through dust and gas clouds and extends humanity’s vision farther out into space and back in time.
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Get the full early design illustration in Resource Gallery. Early design concepts for Webb, known at the time as the Next Generation Space Telescope, already incorporated a segmented mirror, an “open” design, and a large sunshield.
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