Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Guest Host: Jen Golbeck
NASA's Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope John Mather speaking on the search for life beyond earth at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
For the past quarter century, the Hubble Space telescope has allowed thousands of scientists to peer deeper into space and deeper back in time than any instrument in history. But NASA is on the cusp of deploying a new tool, the James Webb Space Telescope, that it hopes will unlock even more secrets about the universe. We chat with John Mather, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist and the senior project scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Guests
- John Mather Senior Project Scientist, NASA James Webb Space Telescope; Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Nobel Laureate
Photos: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
The amazing mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will allow the James Webb Space Telescope see farther away and further back in time to detect the light from the very first and most distant stars and galaxies.
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's giant clean room in Greenbelt, Md., Optical Engineer Larkin Carey examines two test mirror segments recently placed on a black composite structure.
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing "snow cleaning'" on a test telescope mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. By shooting carbon dioxide snow at the surface, engineers are able to clean large telescope mirrors without scratching them.
Dressed in a clean room suit, NASA photographer Desiree Stover shines a light on the Space Environment Simulator's Integration Frame inside the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Inside a giant clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the pathfinder telescope, a practice section of the James Webb Space Telescope, stands fully assembled.
An illustration of how NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project will look in space.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project.
Kojo's Guest Book: John Mather
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