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No. Biden does not take credit for the images and will present them as decades of international effort. The former President would claim he took the images all by himself.

He has presided over one of those decades

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A phenomenon I've noticed is that the most important person in an organization tends to always make the coolest announcements. This applies equally to the government and to corporations. Dear presidents, governors, and CEOs, please let lower level employees make the cool announcements.

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No. Biden does not take credit for the images and will present them as decades of international effort. The former President would claim he took the images all by himself.

Biden's probably not going to be taking credit for any images this week.

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If this "day 2" does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you're not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it "day" and not "phase"? Does "phase" have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too "scientific"?

I honestly don't know. Just to clarify, the term "Day-2" isn't from NASA, it's a universal engineering term - which mostly happens on Earth ;) I'm guessing it's just a planning term - like D-Day :shrugs:

* https://dzone.com/articles/defining-day-2-operations

* https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/day-2-ops/

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I honestly don't know. Just to clarify, the term "Day-2" isn't from NASA, it's a universal engineering term - which mostly happens on Earth ;) I'm guessing it's just a planning term - like D-Day :shrugs:

I see Day-0, Day-1, Day-2 etc. used in the context of business planning quite frequently.

So its in 3 days?

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Nixon called Neil and Buzz on the moon. Reagan sent a message of good wishes to STS-1 (he was recovering from an assassination attempt). Biden gets to present the government’s telescope pix. It’s one of the honors of being the President.

Carter wrote a message included in the Voyager Golden Record. These are formalities which I don't understand why that person was upset at this.

Re: Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

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Time to see how much damage that micrometeoroid did.

Statistically speaking, it's quite concerning that such a large hit has occurred so soon after launch and thus does not bode well for the predicted lifespan of the telescope.

We pray it was an extreme outlier.

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