Redondo Beach Year in Review 2022: Harbor, leadership, space reexamined
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 the Webb’s infrared lenses – were revealed to the world. Northrop Grumman top staff who worked on the project later received the highest of NASA accolades for non-government workers. Special, special elections in Redondo “There is simply nothing more important than elections,” said Mayor Bill Brand at a July city council meeting during which Councilman Zein Obagi, Jr., drove up from San Diego for an unexpected, late-night vote to schedule a special election on Wednesday, Oct. 19 for both a retail cannabis legalization measure and Obagi’s own recall vote. Councilmen Nils Nehrenheim, and Todd Loewenstein described the date, three weeks before the general election, as a way to give focus to the two local matters. The…
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