{"id":227600,"date":"2025-12-21T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:03:23","slug":"nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME\u2019s Best Inventions Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two icons of discovery, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7323640\/25-iconic-inventions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Best Inventions Hall of Fame<\/a>,\u201d which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list in 2000. The inventions are celebrated in TIME\u2019s December print issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA does the impossible every day, and it starts with the visionary science that propels humanity farther than ever before,\u201d said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cCongratulations to the teams who made the world\u2019s great engineering feats, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Curiosity Rover, a reality. Through their work, distant galaxies feel closer, and the red sands of Mars are more familiar, as they expanded and redefined the bounds of human achievement in the cosmos for the benefit of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades in the making and operating a million miles from Earth, Webb is the most powerful space telescope ever built, giving humanity breathtaking views of newborn stars, distant galaxies, and even planets orbiting other stars. The new technologies developed to enable Webb\u2019s science goals \u2013 from optics to detectors to thermal control systems \u2013 now also touch Americans\u2019 everyday lives, improving manufacturing for everything from high-end cameras and contact lenses to advanced semiconductors and inspections of aircraft engine components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two icons of discovery, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME\u2019s \u201cBest Inventions Hall of Fame,\u201d which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list in 2000. The inventions are celebrated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227600","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}