STP68 - The James Webb Space Telescope with Mark McCaughrean of ESA

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to take place on 22nd December, we wanted to take an in depth look at what it is, so we reached out to the European Space Agency (ESA) and they put us in contact with Mark McCaughrean who is an interdisciplinary scientist for this mission.

Mark McCaughrean:
https://markmccaughrean.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/markmccaughrean

ESA fact page for James Webb:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb_factsheet 

Next Generation Space Telescope PDF from 1989 as mentioned by Emily:
https://bit.ly/3oLz7CA 

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Image Credits: ESA

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Emily Carney

A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is hosted by the National Space Society.

In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

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Dave Giles

Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

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