Sofía Rojas was having breakfast with family when the email she’d long anticipated finally landed in her inbox.
It was from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Science Mission Office, informing her that she’s been allotted 18 hours to commandeer the telescope.
“I went nuts,” said Rojas, a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. “I was jumping. And my family was not understanding.”
Their bewilderment was understandable. It was March 2021, and Webb hadn’t even launched yet.
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