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Our news archive contains the following:

• News Archive
  (all our news items)

• NASA Press Releases & Features
  (links to NASA-written press releases)

• Webb Telescope in the Press
  (links to articles in outside publications which feature Webb)

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News Archive

All our news items.

17 February 2012: We have an updated fact sheet comparing Hubble and Webb. You can find it at the top of our Print products page.

2 February 2012: New, a set of telescope-themed activities from the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, designed for the informal-education setting. View our For Educators page.

9 January 2012: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year of Achievement and Success Read the feature.

21 December 2011: Cryogenic Testing Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Mirrors Read the feature.

20 December 2011: Download "Webb Spinoffs" to learn more about how technology developed for this space telescope has been used to improve life on Earth. Download the pdf.

15 December 2011: For NASA Webb Telescope Engineers, COCOA this Winter Means Precision Testing. Read the release

09 December 2011: There is a new Behind the Webb video podcast on vibration testing of our mirrors. View the podcast

18 November 2011: New team member bio: Meet Bill Ochs, JWST Project Manager.

17 November 2011: Assembly Stand Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Flight Optics Read the NASA feature.

10 November 2011: We've added two new team member bios. John Durning, Deputy Project Manager and Randy Kimble, Integration and Test Project Scientist.

4 November 2011: We have added a .pdf of our "Fun Pad," which is full of activities for children age 5-10. View our page for educators or direct link to the Fun Pad.

12 October 2011: Giant-Sized Webb Space Telescope Model to 'Land' in Baltimore View the NASA feature.

28 September 2011: The newest Behind the Webb video podcast is up! This one is about the giant thermal vacuum chamber at NASA Johnson, which we'll eventually use to test the fully-assembled telescope. View the video.

27 September 2011: Join the RWIW NASA Engineering Design Challenge Webinar to learn more about getting your middle and high school students engaged in STEM, October 6th, 2011, 6:30-8:00 PM EDT. It's free. More info and where to register.

27 September 2011: Four new images of a full-size test layer of our tennis court-sized sunshield: View the images.

19 September 2011: Testing is underway using flight-like material for the sunshield, a full-scale test frame and hardware attachments. Read the feature article.

13 September 2011: Major milestone reached: all the mirrors have completed gold coating. Read the feature article.

12 September 2011: On September 19th at 2pm there will be a JWST Q&A Town Hall webinar: More details and registration info.

6 September 2011: The Webb Progress Report is out on the Space Telescope Science Institute site: View the report.

6 September 2011: We just posted 4 new images of the full-scale backplane mock-up. View the images.

2 September 2011: RealWorld-InWorld engineering design challenge registration now open for teachers, students, and college team leaders! Go to the RealWorld-InWorld site.

18 August 2011: Our flight MIRI instrument just passed a major milestone - it successfully completed cryo testing. Read the feature.

04 August 2011: Our latest issue (Summer 2011) of the Webb Update is out!. Download the .pdf or view the newsletter archive.

30 July 2011: Here is AURA's page on Webb: http://www.aura-astronomy.org/

28 July 2011: New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes. Read the release.

19 July 2011: Our secondary mirror was recently completed, following polishing and gold-coating. Read the feature and view the new images.

12 July 2011: Ball Aerospace just put out a factsheet that shows all the tech used on the primary mirror segments. View the factsheet.

30 June 2011: Big news! All of our mirror segments have now completed final polishing!. Read the web feature.

16 June 2011: The first 6 of our 18 mirror segments just completed their final cryogenic testing. View the photo release.

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NASA Press Releases and Features

This is an archive of the NASA releases and features.

• 9 January 2011 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year of Achievement and Success

• 21 December 2011 - Cryogenic Testing Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Mirrors

• 15 December 2011 - For NASA Webb Telescope Engineers, COCOA this Winter Means Precision Testing

• 17 November 2011 - Assembly Stand Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Flight Optics

• 12 October 2011 - Giant-Sized Webb Space Telescope Model to 'Land' in Baltimore

• 19 September 2011 - Tests Under way on the Sunshield for NASA's Webb Telescope

• 13 September 2011 - NASA's Webb Telescope Completes Mirror-Coating Milestone

• 18 August 2011 - Webb Telescope's MIRI Flight Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing in the U.K.

• 28 July 2011 - New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes."

• 19 July 2011 - Being "Secondary" is Important for a Webb Telescope Mirror

• 16 June 2011 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Completes First Round of Cryogenic MIrror Test

• 27 May 2011 - James Webb Space Telescope ISIM on 'Spin Cycle'

• 23 May 2011 - NASA Virtual Student Engin. Competition Winners

• 15 April 2011 - NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope Marks Key Milestone

• 13 April 2011 - Two Kinds of Webb Telescope Mirrors Arrive at NASA Goddard

• 11 April 2011 - NASA Invites Elementary Students and Their Families to an Out-of-This-World Exploration of Webb Telescope

• 31 March 2011 - Get Some Quick "Cool" Facts About NASA's Webb Telescope on Video

• 21 March 2011 - Webb Sunshield Like an Umbrella on the Shores of the Universe

• 8 March 2011 - James Webb Space Telescope's "Chassis" Gets Taken Out for a Spin at NASA

• December 10, 2010 - The Webb Telescope's Actuators: Curving Mirrors in Space

Older NASA Features and Releases

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Webb Telescope in the Press

This section is primarily to archive feature articles on Webb.

• PBS Nova, The Next Big Space Telescope, July 2010.

• Science Friday, Future Space Telescope Tours Earth, June 2010.

• Arizona Daily Star, UA joins search for baby galaxies, May 2010.

• Scientific American, 6 Fun Facts about James Webb Space Telescope, March, 2010.

Older Feature Articles