Meet the Baltimore team readying the James Webb Space Telescope for discovery after it's launched

From a mission operations center on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, they’ll carefully guide the spacecraft to a point a million miles from Earth, deploy the telescope’s equipment and align its 18 hexagonal mirrors, which must all function in unison to capture the heretofore unseen.

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