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NASA Program Director for the James Webb Space Telescope Program Greg Robinson gives a brief interview on NASA television as he and the launch team monitor the countdown of the launch of Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket carrying NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in the Jupiter Center at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: NASA
Critical Knowledge inSight: Govern Efficiently as a Program Manager

Setting up an efficient governing structure is an essential skill leaders and managers use to be more effective on their programs or projects. 

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This spiral galaxy, M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, has come into much sharper focus as centuries of innovation in telescopes has revealed increasing levels of detail. Credit: NASA
Flagship Telescopes Reveal the Unexpected

Astronomers will use Webb to continue the long search for early galaxies.

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The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown here stacked and expanded in a cleanroom in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, will be folded up during launch and deploy in space. Credit: NASA
Webb’s Deployments Most Complex Ever Attempted

Observatory will unfold massive sunshield, mirror in space.

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Podcast Episode 73: James Webb Space Telescope
Podcast Episode 73: James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope Program Director Greg Robinson discusses NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope ever constructed.

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Image of the November INSIGHT featured video, showing the James Webb Space Telescope.
Featured Video: 29 Days on the Edge

The greatest origin story of all unfolds with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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In the fall of 2022, the DART spacecraft will collide head-on with the smaller asteroid in the Didymos system in the first space test of the kinetic impactor method for deflecting an asteroid. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
DART Takes Aim at Asteroid Moonlet

Mission will be first space test of kinetic impactor method.

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NASA’s John Hamley (left) and Vince Bilardo.
Critical Knowledge inSight: Lessons from Complex Partnerships

Carefully designing a customer-facing management organization can build strong working relationships that help complex missions and programs succeed.

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Podcast Episode 63: OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Podcast Episode 63: OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta discusses the NASA mission to near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror, segments of which are seen here prepared for cryogenic testing in 2011, has unfolded for the last time on Earth as the team anticipates a launch this fall. Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
First Research for James Webb Space Telescope Set

Team anticipates launch of largest, most powerful space telescope ever built.

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