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NASA Webb telescope launch delayed again until Christmas Eve at earliest

By Virginia Aabram
Published December 15, 2021 10:37pm ET
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NASA Webb telescope launch delayed again until Christmas Eve at earliest
In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. | (Laura Betz/NASA via AP, File)

The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, decades in the making and billions of dollars over budget, has been delayed by several more days.

A problem with communications prompted NASA to delay the launch date of the telescope, which will succeed the Hubble Telescope, from Dec. 22 to Christmas Eve.

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