Redondo Beach 2021: School’s back, Webb launches, Pier gets love, BeachLife live
From Redondo to the Big Bang During an undisclosed evening in September, workers at Northrop Grumman, in Redondo Beach, loaded the James E. Webb Telescope into a transport trailer, and drove it 17 miles down Pacific Coast Highway to Seal Beach. From there, a cargo ship sailed the telescope to the European Space Agency’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. On Christmas Day, $10 billion, and 19 years after the telescope was conceived, it was launched into orbit around the sun, one million miles from earth. Northrop Grumman is the telescope’s prime contractor and Redondo Beach resident Scott Willoughby its program manager. Willoughby’s wife Sarah is its vice president of geospatial systems. The Webb is 100 times more powerful, seven times the size, and half the weight of its predecessor, the Hubble Telescope. Webb’s first pictures will arrive back at Earth in six months. Scientists hope they will offer insights into the Big Bang. Redondo Beach parents protest against mandatory vaccinations during an October school board meeting, though mandatory vaccines are not required of students. Photo by Kevin Cody In-person school returns, controversy follows Redondo Beach Unified School…
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