TED Talks
Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope
TV-PG
2019 • E127 May 30, 2019 7mTED Fellow and astronomer Erika Hamden leads the team building FIREBall, a telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues about how stars are created. She takes us inside the roller-coaster, decade-long journey to get the telescope from an idea into orbit — and shows how failure is inevitable when you're pushing the limits of knowledge.
