Release Date: March 22, 2013 12:00AM (EDT)

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The 21-foot-wide primary mirror of the Webb telescope is so large that it will have to fold up to fit into a rocket and be launched to space. Join host Mary Estacion as she travels to ATK in Magna, Utah, where the mirror’s foldable backplane “wings” have been constructed.

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