a series of parachutes open, massively slowing it down, before splash down in the pacific ocean. keith cowing is a former nasa employee and now editor of website nasa watch. he explained why there was so much excitement surrounding nasa s artemis launch. i am a child of the apollo generation. lam 67. i went through all of this as a kid, i was told that we that we would land on the moon in nine years and we did. there was lots of excitement then but that was then and this is now, and we are talking about the artemis generation with in many ways people harking back to this being their apollo moment, but right now, more than half of the world s population has never seen anybody walk on another world so it is going to be their first moonwalk. that was then with apollo and this is now, everything is instant, everything is going to be in hd. so you will have the celebrities and stuff like that.
could be many other planets out there with the ability to sustain life. as nasa put it this is an apollo moment. webb will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe. it will be six months before we see any images from the telescope. while the launch was successful there is a lot that could go wrong between now and then. the telescope took 30 years to develop and involves what nasa calls giant high tech origami. it was a sun shield that will eventually reach the size of a tennis court. the telescope was folded up to fit into the rocket and throughout the next few weeks will start to unfurl. it is an exciting but harrowing time during which thousands of parts and sequences all have to work correctly together almost a million miles from earth. so far everything has gone according to plan. the past few days with the successful deployment of the antenna and telescope making its first planned adjustment to its trajectory. just moments ago nasa announced more good news that it