I've never participated to the Olympic Games, but I think that an athlete might feel the same way.

You prepare for years and years and years, you check everything, you train, you train, you train, and then comes the big team.

In rocketry, it's the same.

I've participated for more than 100 launches.

Each launch is so particular that it's like falling in love each day again.

So very special.

I won't miss this one.

It will be the top light of my career.

This is NASA's curious universe. Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm Patty Boyd and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

After years of planning, preparation, and anticipation,

the time has finally come to send the world's most powerful telescope into space.

Once it reaches its final destination,

the James Webb Space Telescope will send back information about the cosmos for years to come,

and scientists anticipate that Webb's research will fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.

We've explored the science, engineering, and people of Webb. We're at the end of our

miniseries, and it's time to talk about the launch of this historic mission. My name is Rudy

Albert, Rudiger, as first name, Rudy Shortened. And I'm working for the European Space Agency, Isha.

And I'm there, the Ariane 5 program manager.

So my job as a program manager is to prepare the Aryan launcher for new missions and new destinations.

And Web is one of the highlights of these missions.

First it started very early. I'm born in the 60s so I'm a pure Apollo kid. I grew up with

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