Rachael Zisk is a journalist at Payload Space - where she covers the business and policy of space in their daily newsletter. We talk about becoming a space journalist, development of the James Webb Space Telescope, all the magnificent JWST images, instruments onboard and much more.

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OUTLINE

(0:00) - Becoming a Space Journalist

(5:40) - Background of James Webb Space Telescope

(12:45) - Instruments onboard JWST

(15:15) - Possibility of life on WASP-96B

(16:41) - Beautiful cosmic cliffs of Carina Nebula

(17:21) - How stars are born?

(19:25) - Southern Ring Nebula

(20:39) - Stephan's Quintet

(22:18) - GLASS-z13 galaxy

(26:07) - 344 Single Point of Failures

(28:47) - Deciding what to capture

(32:40) - Is money spent on space worth it?

(36:25) - JWST sustaining a micrometeoroid impact

(41:57) - New Space Science newsletter

(50:50) - Conclusion

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