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NASA's chamber of horrors contains all the necessary equipment to make the components going up in Hubble suffer. The centrifuge machine, for example, makes them go through G-forces that can't be stand by any human, including Mr. T: 30 Gs.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be equipped with a near-infrared camera, a near-IR multi-object spectrograph, a mid-IR instrument, and a tunable filter imager, to show images of the very beginning of the Universe. NASA is also looking into the "formation of solar systems capable of...