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Credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls
CAPE CANAVERAL—Two weeks after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched into orbit, the final segment of its 21-ft.-dia. primary mirror—the largest mirror ever flown on a space observatory—was rotated into position, completing NASA’s risky and most technically complicated series of in...
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