and it s such an expensive mission and such an important mission, we ve alljust been really, really hoping it went well and so far, it is going amazingly well. yeah, well, i wanted to talk about that because $10 million $10 billion, sorry 30 years in the making. are you surprised by how smoothly it s gone? because even nasa have said they were not expecting it to go so well. they were expecting some hiccups. well, you know, i havejust been hoping, i ve been trying to get not too caught up in it in terms of, you know, emotionally involved because this is important for the kind of science i do i m interested in cosmology and the study of the whole history of the universe and this is going to show us some of the first structures ever formed in the cosmos, and we have been waiting so long for this, we ve been so hopeful for it. i am i won t say i m surprised because i know how much work went into it, i know how careful the engineers have been, how much testing they ve been doing,
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