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Wow, this photographed really badly. I used a stencil and black art screen ink to add stars to the background paper. They have kind of a shimmer that looks much better irl. After I created the pocket I realized that I didn't have any room for journaling. I created a flap near the top to add it while still being able to get at the signed picture. There's also an information sheet comparing the new telescope to the hubble.

Tyler won a contest in gigth grade run by NASA. They winners used to have an award ceremony near us at Kennedy Space Center but due to budget cuts they kept postponing it. Finally they decided to hold it at Goddard space center in Washington DC. the flew us and the winners in other categories out there two years later. Wow, was it worth it. we got treated like vips! Anyway, this was a visit to the warehouse were they were building the new james Webb Space telescope were a Nobel prize winner explained it to us. After I made the pocket i realized that I didn't leave any room for journaling so i created a flap near the top

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While visiting Goddard Space Center in Washington D.C. we had the opportunity of meeting Dr. John C. Mather. Dr Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology. He is also a Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope. As winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Dr. Mather shares the prize with George F. Smoot of the University of California for their work using the COBE satellite to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang.
Dr. Mather was so gracious in answering the questions of the boys, no matter how crazy. All of us parents were a little stars truck at meeting an actual Nobel Prize winner but the boys had no qualms about talking to him like they were old friends.
It was quite daunting to be talking to such a brilliant mind while looking over the warehouse where the actual James Webb Telescope was being put together. The telescope is set to replace the Hubble telescope upon it's completion later this decade.


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