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SUMMARY:PAST AND FUTURE OF MAKING MEGASCIENCE--THE JWST (Sp Pol & Hist Forum)\, Dec 9\, 2021\, virtual\, 4:00-5:00 pm ET
DESCRIPTION:The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and NASA will hold the next in NASM’s Space Policy and History Forum series on December 9\, 2021 from 4:00-5:00 pm ET.  It will be livestreamed. \nThe topic is “The Past and Future of Making Megasciene: The James Webb Space Telescope” and features Dr. Robert W. Smith\, Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. \nMore information is on the event’s website\, which says: \nThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is currently at Kourou in French Guiana being prepared for launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. If all goes to plan\, the Telescope’s launch and subsequent operations will be the culmination of over three decades of planning\, negotiations\, construction and testing. The $10 billion JWST—a joint enterprise of NASA\, the European Space Agency\, and the Canadian Space Agency—is the most complex and in some ways the most powerful telescope ever built. \nIts history—which includes a near-death experience at the hands of a U.S. congressional committee in 2011 when there was an effort to kill the project—raises a range of space policy issues. In this talk\, Dr. Robert W. Smith will discuss some episodes in JWST’s history and examine JWST as an example of what can be termed “Megascience\,” a clear increase in scale beyond the usual sorts of Big Science\, and in so doing compare its history with those of the Hubble Space Telescope and the ill-fated Superconducting Supercollider. \nJoin the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and NASA for this virtual Space Policy and History Forum. The program will be moderated by Dr. Bhavya Lal\, NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Technology\, Policy and Strategy\, and Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony\, Air and Space curator of the Apollo collection. \nWatch the program live on the Space Policy and History Forum YouTube Channel or contact Teasel Muir-Harmony to register for the Zoom webinar. Space in the Zoom webinar is limited. \nRegister here.
URL:https://spacepolicyonline.com/events/past-and-future-of-making-megascience-the-jwst-sp-pol-hist-forum-dec-9-2021-virtual-400-500-pm-et/
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