The James Webb Space Telescope model is flying to Germany

The Webb telescope model has orbited the Earth a number of times since 2005. It has landed at Colorado Springs, Colo.; Paris, France; Greenbelt, Md.; Rochester, N.Y.; Orlando, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; Dublin, Ireland; and most recently Montreal, Canada. By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, [RxPG] The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of orbits around the world, and is now slated to land at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany from October 13-28, 2008. The actual James Webb Space Telescope is in the process of being built. Once it launches in 2013 it will find the first galaxies and will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. Webb's instruments have been designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the... [read full story]