The picture that appeared on Reuters.com was startling familiar. "My god! Someone built the Time Tunnel!" I thought. But, it was actually the shrinking machine from Fantastic Voyage that NASA did not build. What they did announce was preparations for the James Webb space telescope. And congratulations are appropriate.
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| Submarine about to be shrunk and injected into a patient. Isaac Asimov's novel was made into a movie (1966) starring Sophia Loren, Donald Pleasance, and Edmund O'Brien. |
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| James Webb space telescope being prepared. Video from NASA on Reuters here. |
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