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Combined Optics, Science Instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Arrive in California

The Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea (STTARS), a specially designed shipping container that held the optical telescope and integrated science instrument module of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is unloaded from a U.S. military C-5 Charlie aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport on Feb. 2, 2018. Credit: NASA/Chris GunnWASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The two halves of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now reside at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, where they will come together to form the complete observatory. Webb's optical telescope and...