{"id":15,"date":"2016-03-09T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2016-03-09T05:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T05:02:52","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2dfcd2d-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2dfcd2d\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2dfcd2d-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2dfcd2d.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Dr. D. Scott Acton<\/h2>\n<p>Scientist at Ball Aerospace<\/p>\n<p>My name is Dr. Scott Acton. I work for Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. At Ball, we are helping to build the \u201cJames Webb Space Telescope,\u201d an incredible instrument that is going to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in about 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>On the JWST project, I am the \u201cWavefront Sensing and Controls Scientist.\u201d In order to understand what that means, I first have to tell you a bit about JWST. JWST is going to be really big\u2014much bigger than Hubble. It\u2019s so big, in fact that it would never fit inside of any launch vehicle. As a result, the entire telescope has to fold up. The primary mirror is made up of 18 segments and folds up as well. After launch, the telescope unfolds itself. My job (along with the team of people I work with) is to put it back together so that it becomes a telescope. This is all done by remote control, of course. Fun, right!?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always like bicycling and bicycle touring. I love astronomy, technology and giving public lectures on these topics. And, of course, I am really excited about JWST! About a year ago, I got the idea to combine the two subjects. So, I am taking a year off from my job to travel around the world by bicycle. Along the way, I\u2019ll stop once or twice a week to give public lectures on this amazing telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. D. Scott Acton Scientist at Ball Aerospace My name is Dr. Scott Acton. I work for Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. At Ball, we are helping to build the \u201cJames Webb Space Telescope,\u201d an incredible instrument that is going to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in about 4 years. On the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?page_id=15\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}