I briefly, and well down on the food chain, worked on the Spitzer Space Telescop...

jkmcf on March 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: People who have seen their work destroyed in a fai...

I briefly, and well down on the food chain, worked on the Spitzer Space Telescope. IIRC, it was originally supposed to launch in the laste 80s/early 90s but finally launched in 2003. Probably a good thing because the IR detector quality was significantly better.