Webb Telescope, Chamber A | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

In case you missed it, The Atlantic news magazine selected this image of Webb telescope as one of 35 hopeful images from 2017! See the article here:https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/hopeful-images-from-2017/547931/

Chris Gunn, one of our team’s photographers, snapped this shot shortly after Webb exited Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Chamber A is Johnson’s massive cryogenic vacuum testing chamber, and scientists and engineers at the center put Webb through a series of tests inside the chamber to ensure the telescope functioned as expected in an extremely cold, airless environment akin to that of space.