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James Webb Telescope

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'Eight billion bucks or bust': From pirates to 'stupid mistakes' — the wild story of how James Webb Space Telescope almost failed to launch

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Author Richard Panek looks at the story behind the launch of the James Webb Telescope .

Panek: "The normal rules don't apply here," Mike Menzel liked to say: "This is virgin territory" The telescope's launch date slipped from October 2018 to June 2019 .

Richard Little Panek : " One little mistake and we're dead meat" He says the final preparations for the James Webb telescope had been coming together at NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

The telescope survived the 16-day , 5,800-mile journey down the west coast of Mexico , through the Panama Canal , up the Kourou River to the Port de Pariacabo , and into a processing facility near the launch site.

Richard Panek is the author of numerous books including "The 4% Universe: Dark Matter , Dark Energy , and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality" Panek 's own books have been translated into 16 languages.

He is also the co-author of " Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum," a New York Times bestseller.

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