400 Years of the Telescope

Today started with coffee and a brief meeting with Steven Beckwith, one of our advisors on the production. We taped 5 interviews at the Hubble Telescope Space Science Institute: Adam Riess, a young astronomer who helped discover Dark Energy; Matt Mountain, the new director of the Hubble Telescope; Kathryn Flanagan, the new director of the James Webb Space Telescope, and her husband, Stephen Murray, one of the project scientists for Chandra, the X-Ray space telescope. Of course, we interviewed Steven Beckwith, Director Emeritus, for the Hubble. After a good long day of work, we took a short drive to Middleburg, VA to have our first meal of the day, dinner with my brother Robin. Tomorrow we will travel to the National Radio Observatory in Greenbank, West Virginia. We’re looking forward to viewing the fall foliage on the Shenandoah mountains.