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“It’s a big deal for us to get to this final home,” said Scott Willoughby, program manager for the Webb at Northrop Grumman, NASA’s prime contractor for the telescope. L2, he said, “is the most natural place for us to be, where the Earth and the moon and the sun and all the orbital tugs on us want to keep us there.”