Business

Lockheed Martin has been selected to design, build and operate the spacecraft for a NASA mission to study asteroids near Jupiter.

One of NASA’s two new Discovery Program missions, the Lucy spacecraft will perform the first reconnaissance of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which orbit the sun in tandem with the gas giant. Lucy will launch in 2021 to study six individual asteroids, according to a Lockheed Martin news release.

One day some 15 years ago, a friend gifted Pete DeWolf a box of toffee.

Though it was quickly devoured, the toffee got DeWolf’s gears turning.

“I thought, ‘Wow, this is delicious. However, if I were to make it, this is how I would do differently,’ ” he said.

And thus began his efforts to create his own recipe. The rest is sweet history.

DeWolf began Steamboat Toffee Co. nearly 10 years ago. Within the last few months, he expanded the business and opened Red Rocks Toffee Co. on Goddard Ranch Court in Morrison.

Closing in on the end of its second year in business, Mathnasium of Littleton is working to promote math and make the subject fun for all.

The center provides tutoring and enrichment services for children in second through 12th grades. Some gifted kindergartners and first-graders come in, but they are a rarity.

More than five years of work by a team of local Lockheed Martin engineers came to a thrilling conclusion July 4 when NASA’s Juno spacecraft was flawlessly placed into orbit around Jupiter.