by Garth Meyer
Local eye on beginning of time
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent the first weeks of 2022 flying and unfolding in space, without a hitch, after 19 years of design and construction at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach.
Launching Christmas Day 2021, the spacecraft reached its orbit destination a month later at a million miles out.
After tuning of instruments, aligning mirrors and cameras, on July 12, its first images – constructed from data collected by



