A full-scale 70-feet long model of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been displayed at the Super Bowl Live festival in Houston.
NASA has plans to launch the 70 feet x 70 feet James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, and it is hoped that the device will further add to our knowledge of the universe. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt is managing the whole project.
Later this year, the telescope will be tested at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“We decided to bring NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this full-scale model out, because we wanted to inspire future generations of scientists and engineers,” Northrop Grumman spokeswoman Connie Reese told Fox News.
“It’s exciting to see families and people walk up, and sort of be in awe when they see this huge four-story model.”
Northrop Grumman was selected by NASA in 2002 as the prime contractor to develop the telescope.
The full scale model of the telescope will remain on display for public, free, at Super Bowl Live in Houston until February 5, 2017.
NASA also partnered with the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee to put together “Future Flight” ride equipped with a virtual reality simulation that let people experience a journey to Mars.
The brave-heart riders are provided pairs of virtual reality (VR)-enabled heavy goggles, and then strapped to chairs before being lifted up a six-story tower at Discovery Green. Then they are dropped to feel a landing on Mars through their VR headsets.
“Future Flight” has now become the centerpiece of the NASA pavilion set up for Super Bowl Live at Discovery Green.
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