The James Webb Space Telescope is chugging along now that it is in space after a Christmas day launch.
NASA is putting the telescope's long-armed secondary mirror in place just a day after successfully installing the giant five-layer sun shield.
Bill Ochs, NASA program manager, called the deployment of the mirror a banner day.
We have a telescope.
Expect delays.
The schedule of which repeatedly "slipped" due to everything from technical glitch to mysterious "incidents" has caused a renewed sense of momentum.
The development of the JWST has cost tens of billions of dollars and has been extended through five presidencies.
The telescope needs to be set up in three more major installations before it can be used.
It has been a wild ride following the final stages of the JWST. We are on the edge of our seats to see the first images from this amazing device.
Scientists are anxious about the launch of the telescope.
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