The James Webb Space Telescope is set to launch Christmas Eve.

[denbot]

This is going to be (fingers crossed) the most significant space launch since the Hubble space telescope.

The video is 16 minutes 22 seconds long but has interesting details.

[Lucinda]

1. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Wounded Bear]

2. Cool stuff! Thanks for the link...nt

[mrsadm]

3. I hope it goes well!

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

4. Hoping for the best.

We really need this up there.

[sakabatou]

5. Can't wait to see its first images of space

[The Revolution]

6. This thing makes me so nervous

This is incredibly significant, and it should allow us to see the first stars and examine the atmospheres of exoplanets.

But it has like 700 movements it has to do to deploy all the way. Most satellites have to do something closer to zero, lol.

I remember 20 years ago when I was in college, an astronomy professor saying how the JWST was going to have to do this complicated unfolding and he was sure it would never work. Hoping he was wrong

[scipan]

7. How to watch

https://www.livescience.com/how-to-watch-jwst-launch

Live launch coverage in English begins on Dec. 24 at 6 a.m. EST. You can watch the launch here at Live Science, on NASA's YouTube channel and NASA TV, and on the agency's website and social media accounts. Spanish language coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EST on the NASA en español's YouTube account and on NASA's website, NASA representatives said on Saturday (Dec. 18) in a statement.

You can also check in at our sister site Space.com all week, to catch the latest updates leading up to the Dec. 24 launch.

Too early for me. I just hope it makes it; so many things to go wrong! Keeping my fingers crossed.