Alabama NewsCenter — Parts made by Cullman’s General Dynamics travel a million miles from Alabama

By Emmett Burnett
Alabama Living

Named for a former NASA administrator, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is something to behold – but you can’t. It’s almost 1 million miles from Earth.

Though far away, the world’s most ambitious $10 billion space observatory, soon to map the deepest voids of space, has an Alabama connection. In September 2003, after head-to-head competition with Kodak (the division is now known as ITT), Cullman’s General Dynamics was chosen by NASA for JWST’s mirror project. The company would work with other space-age entities, including Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies, in making science fiction into science reality.

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