The James Webb Space Telescope

After decades of planning, NASA is finally (finally!) set to launch
the successor to the Hubble. The new Webb telescope will be a
paradigm shift for astronomy, exploring places in the cosmos that
have been completely invisible to us until now. But first, it has
to safely reach a point nearly a million miles away from the Earth.
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