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James Webb Telescope, STS-131 and today in space history on your Spacevidcast for March 30th, 2010.

As most of you know, the Hubble Space Telescope has had it’s last repair. Which is what much of the new movie Hubble 3D is about. Not to worry though. As Hubble will end it’s days sometime around 2020 peacefully, there is a new tele on the block that is just rearing to go! The James Webb Space Telescope. Or JWST for short.

As you can see there is a lot of excitement about this new telescope! Now the JWST will not be a complete successor of Hubble’s, because it won’t be sensitive to all of the light wavelengths that Hubble is. The main scientific goal is to observe the most distant objects in the universe. Or to steal from some famous words… where no man has seen before.

If you can’t wait for the Webb telescope, then fret not… STS-131 is only 6 days away from launch!

Starting late on April 4th and going in to April 5th Spacevidcast will be streaming live coverage of STS-131′s launch in High Definition. Not only is Spacevidcast.com the only place on the planet that you can get live high definition streaming of shuttle launches, but you can also ask your questions of astronauts, reporters and crew working down at KSC during the launch. If you can’t watch one of the final 4 launches in person, then at least watch it in HD with us!

Today in space history: Rocketdyne was awarded in 1964 a contract for the production of 76 F-1 rocket engines to be used on the first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle. The F-1 engine was the most powerful single nozzle, liquid fueled rocket engine, ever used in service. These are the engines that were used to first get humans to the moon and were the driving force of the most powerful rocket ever built.

And of course, don’t forget to join us this Friday at 2 am Coordinated Universal Time for a live interview with Ed Buckbee. Mr. Buckbee was NASA PAO working with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts and is also the founder of Space Camp. Grab a copy of his book “The Real Space Cowboys” from Apogee books and join us to ask your questions of Ed live!