NASA MEDIA TELECON RE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE, June 27, 2018, virtual, 1:00 pm ET (audiocast)

NASA will hold a media telecon on June 27, 2018 at 1:00 pm ET on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).  Among the speakers is Tom Young who chaired the Independent Review Board that just completed an assessment of the JWST’s status and whether it can meet its re-revised launch date of May 2020.

Audio of the telecon will be livestreamed at NASA Live.

Participants are:

• Stephen Jurczyk, NASA associate administrator
• Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
• Tom Young, chair of the Independent Review Board
• John Mather, Webb senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center