NASA's James Webb Space Telescope space telescope will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, giving it the ability see the first galaxies born after the Big Bang. #JWST https://goo.gl/8kGc6G | Space.com

7.1K views · 357 reactions | The NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team began the first steps in the process of tensioning the first layer of Webb’s sunshield this morning around 10 a.m. EST. It will take the team two to three days to tension the five-layer sunshield. The plan for today is to focus on the first layer, the largest and the one closest to the Sun: https://go.nasa.gov/3zlSndo | Space Telescope Science Institute | Facebook