> On Dec 21, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Robert Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 21, 2021, at 8:06 AM, Larry Finch <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:40 AM Laura R <[email protected]> wrote: >> NASA is preparing to launch the Webb telescope out to space. It will let us >> know how all started: >> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy.html?smid=em-share >> >> There is a “folding” part. This sounds like there is a lot of origami here. >> Can anyone elaborate more? >> >> Dr. Lang was involved in the design of the James Webb telescope, and has >> written about it and created videos about it, as well as a TED talk. Here is >> just one of the many articles that you can find with a web search: >> https://www.wired.com/2008/01/the-origami-tel/ > > > Ah, no, he wasn’t involved in JWST (though he does talk about it in his TED > talk as an example of folding in space, ending with “they didn’t need an > origami artist for a telescope with only two folds in it”). > > The two space-based telescopic projects I was involved in were the Eyeglass > (a project from LLNL, not NASA), which is either halted or classified (or > both); and NASA StarShade, which is definitely continuing in development, and > there’s some cool videos on the internet of its deployment testing. > > (Well, there’s a bit more, but I can’t talk publicly about that yet. 😉) > > Robert
My question was removed from the original message, so I repeat it here: Is the Webb telescope connected in any way with the Eyeglass telescope that Robert Lang helped develop at the turn of the century? From Robert’s answer to Larry Finch, it does not get clear to me whether there is a connection/continuation/inspiration from the Eyeglass to the Webb (even if it’s something totally different) and I would like to know. Reason is because at the Museo del Origami I always talk about the Eyeglass (and there is a picture of it with Robert posing in front) and would be cool to say something like: “Despite the fact that the Eyeglass stayed in the prototype stage, it inspired new projects like so an so…” >
