JWST Removal of Optics and Science Instruments (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

JWST Removal of Optics and Science Instruments

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Engineers lift the combined optics and science instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope after removing it from the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea (STTARS) at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, on March 8, 2018. Webb's science payload and spacecraft (which includes the sunshield that is also pictured here in its folded state) will be combined at Northrop before launch.

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