The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to transform our understanding of the universe, just as every new telescope window has in the past.

“it's a new telescope in a new window on the universe and for every new window that has ever been opened in the history of my field it has transformed our understanding of the field in the in the areas where it specialized in so I fully expect that to happen”

The James Webb Space Telescope was designed to fit into a launch fairing by folding up.

“we knew we needed a giant telescope it's about 21 feet across in diameter and we knew the largest rockets just couldn't launch it so we had to fold the thing up”

The James Webb Space Telescope is a highly effective tool that serves many different branches of astrophysics.

“I'm glad to hear that because one of the great things about jwst is because of how many different branches how many different sub Fields within astrophysics it serves correct”

The James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope capable of revealing fundamental new information about the universe.

“I've seen endless photos from the hubble space telescope and my understanding is that this is the big new next next generation telescope that's going to teach us everything about the universe”

The James Webb Space Telescope is an incredibly significant engineering achievement that enables humanity to study deep space in ways previously impossible.

“what makes that kind of interesting though is that this telescope is technically something that's owned by all of us that's something that the guy at nasa wanted to sort of like hammer home what's that like this is a project for everybody and everyone can actually submit proposals as to what it poin”