Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine (2023)

Directed by

Shai Gal

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 04m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the decades-long effort to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope. It shows the challenges scientists and engineers overcame to get the telescope into space and unveils the first images it captured.

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What happens

Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine is an episode of the four-episode 2023 Netflix documentary series Unknown, about NASA's development and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The episode follows the development of the telescope from the 1990s through its 2021 launch and 2022 deployment, and the unveiling of some of the first images from the new space telescope. The episode was directed by Shai Gal and released on Netflix on July 24, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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