• NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame”. • The most powerful space telescope ever built and the car-size roving science lab on Mars are among 25 of the most iconic inventions the magazine has covered in the past quarter century. • Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list in 2000. • The inventions are celebrated in TIME’s December print issue. • “NASA does the impossible every day, and it starts with the visionary science that propels humanity farther than ever before,” said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington. • “Congratulations to the teams who made the world’s great engineering feats, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Curiosity Rover, a reality.
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- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Curiosity rover have been selected for TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” a list that honors 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past 25 years. The recognition, announced in TIME’s December print issue, highlights the telescopes and rover’s global impact, from Webb’s unprecedented views of distant galaxies and exoplanets to Curiosity’s decade‑long exploration of Mars and its contributions to future human missions. NASA officials praised the teams for expanding human knowledge of the cosmos and for technologies that now benefit everyday products such as cameras, lenses, and semiconductors.
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