WEBINAR WITH MAJ. GEN. JOHN SHAW, SPACE OPERATIONS COMMAND (Space News), June 1, 2020, virtual, 2:00 pm ET

Update, May 31:  This will not take place on June 1 at 2:00 on ET.  It is now entitled:  How Space Force Defends the High Ground (and rescues astronauts).   Shaw, Schiess and Thompson are still the speakers.

Update, May 27, 5:15 pm ET:  The Demo-2 launch was scrubbed due to weather and Space News announced that it will reschedule this event for after the launch.  Check back for more information.

Update, May 26:  Two more guests have been added: 45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Doug Schiess
and 45th Operations Group Detachment 3 Commander Lt. Col. Michael Thompson. 

Original Entry: Space News will hold a free webinar on May 28, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET with Maj. Gen. John Shaw, Commander, Space Operations Command, U.S. Space Force, and head of U.S. Space Command’s Combined Forces Space Component.

Among other things, Shaw is responsible for “ensuring the renowned 45th Operations Group’s Detachment 3 team is ready at a moment’s notice to lead astronaut-recovery operations.”

The discussion will take place one day after the launch of SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission, the first launch of astronauts to orbit from American soil since the last space shuttle flight in 2011.  If the Demo-2 launch is delayed, so will this event.

More information and registration instructions are on the event’s website.

Shaw will be interviewed by Space News staff writer Sandra Erwin and Editor-in-Chief Brian Berger.