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James Webb Space Telescope to undergo testing in Apollo vacuum chamber [i]The scientific successor to the acclaimed Hubble Space Telescope has arrived in Houston for a pre-launch test using the historic, unparalleled facility that was built for the Apollo moon-bound spacecraft. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will study distant galaxies and look for habitable exoplanets, is now being prepared for a three-month trial inside Chamber A at Johnson Space Center in Texas. The facility, now the largest cryo-vacuum chamber in the world, was modified to support the optical instrument section of the overall tennis-court-sized observatory.[/i]
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