{"id":131993,"date":"2021-12-08T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-webb-nasas-10-billion-space-telescope-on-the-cusp-of-a-nervous-launch"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:24:50","slug":"7-things-you-didnt-know-about-webb-nasas-10-billion-space-telescope-on-the-cusp-of-a-nervous-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-webb-nasas-10-billion-space-telescope-on-the-cusp-of-a-nervous-launch","title":{"rendered":"7 Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Webb, NASA\u2019s $10 Billion Space Telescope On The Cusp Of A Nervous Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-webb-nasas-10-billion-space-telescope-on-the-cusp-of-a-nervous-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Hubble, which orbits Earth and was visited by NASA astronauts for fixes and upgrades, Webb is going a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2\u2014so Webb almost certainly can\u2019t be fixed if anything goes wrong (though never write-off NASA).<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or \u201cWebb\u201d for short) is due to go skywards\u2014at long, long last\u2014on December 18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Hubble, which orbits Earth and was visited by NASA astronauts for fixes and upgrades, Webb is going a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2\u2014so Webb almost certainly can\u2019t be fixed if anything goes wrong (though never write-off NASA). NASA\u2019s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or \u201cWebb\u201d for short) is due to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}