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This rare overhead shot of the James Webb Space Telescope shows the nine primary flight mirrors installed on the telescope structure in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Gunn

Inside NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s massive clean room in Greenbelt, Maryland, the 9th flight mirror was installed onto the telescope structure with a robotic arm. This marks the halfway completion point for the James Webb Space Telescope’s segmented primary mirror. The James Webb Space Telescope team has been working tirelessly to install all 18 of Webb’s mirror segments onto the telescope structure.

In these NASA images, the engineering team is seen using a robotic arm to lift and lower the hexagonal-shaped segment that...