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U.S. Postal Service Issues James Webb Space Telescope Stamp

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Thursday, September 8, 2022
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the release of this vibrant stamp, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as it continues its epic mission to reveal the cosmos as never seen before. A dedication ceremony for the stamp was held today at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

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  • Postal Service celebrates NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as it continues its epic mission to reveal the cosmos as never seen before.
  • "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope orbits the sun about a million miles away Now it will travel the U.S. mail system"
    "The James Webb Space Telescope orbits the sun about a million miles away from our planet.
  • Launched on Dec. 25, 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed in space capable of studying every phase of cosmic history.
  • The words "Webb Space Telescope" appear in white along the bottom edge of the stamp.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery

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Thursday, January 30, 2020
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After the decommissioning was confirmed, Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declared the mission had officially ended.

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  • After the decommissioning was confirmed, Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declared the mission had officially ended.
  • Launched in 2003, Spitzer was one of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
  • In 2016,following a review of operating astrophysics missions,NASA made a decision to close out the Spitzer mission in 2018 in anticipation of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which also will observe the universe in infrared light.
  • NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, conducts mission operations and manages the SpitzerSpace Telescope mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.