KGNU-How On Earth, Show: Ball Aerospace Part 2: The Tour

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Ball engineers inspect part of the James Webb Space Telescope (photo courtesy Ball Aerospace).

Ball Aerospace Part 2: The Tour

Theme: Astronomy
Air Date: 5/23/06
Producer: Daniel Costello

Host Intro: Following last week's interview about Ball Aerospace's Civil Space projects, we now take you on a tour of the facilities where they are built. We'll find out how they build and test instruments so that they can survive the rigors of deployment in space. We'll even take a peek in a clean room where Ball engineers are working on the successor to the Hubble space telescope. Our Tour guide is Ball employee Ken Hutchison.

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