James Webb Space Telescope lands on 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah'

As he learns about NASA's newest deep-space telescope in front of a live audience, you can see life, the universe and everything.

The comedian sat down with Gregory Robinson, director of the James Webb Space Telescope program, during his show.

Noah shook his head in disbelief as he described a selection of the new imagery. I apologize, what? What is it that that actually means?

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Robinson has been with NASA since 1989 and admits to saying "what" as well. He said that we are seeing light travel at 186,000 miles per second. He said that the events are reaching them now. Time-distance travel of light is what it is.

Noah found some interesting implications when he tried to manipulate time travel. What do we do with this data? Is it possible that the aliens left for Earth and are here? Does it tell us where we are going to end up?

Robinson said that the goal of the mission is to answer some basic astronomy questions. What are we from? How are we connected to this universe? We are looking for Are we alone. It informs us of how we fit into the universe.

Robinson's story began in rural Virginia where his parents were sharecroppers. He grew up among segregation for Blacks during the Jim Crow era, which was depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures" about Black female NASA engineers.

Robinson was called upon by NASA when the project was behind schedule and over budget. Noah said that it was failing and that they called him. You did it, because they said they needed you to do it.

Robinson said that teachers at his school planted the seeds of his success because it was hard for blacks to get jobs in industry during that time. We were nurtured by them. They paid attention to us. My early days were very strong.

Robinson said that a lot of the hard work was done before he was asked to take over. Along with NASA, industrial and international partners shepherded the project through the six-month period after it was launched.

The team is extremely smart. Robinson said that smarts is not a problem for this team.

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