image: One of the clean rooms at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is one of the largest in the world, and that's where the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (or MIRI) was wheeled into on May 30, 2012. It was shipped from Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK in an "Envirotainer (shipping container)." This image shows engineers wheeling the Envirotainer containing MIRI, through one of the large high bay doors and into the sterile environment of the clean room. For more information on the MIRI and Webb telescope, visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov. view more
Credit: NASA, Maggie Masetti; Text Credit: NASA, Rob Gutro