On October 11, 2022, Dr. Scott Acton gave a public science lecture at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas about his work on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Dr. Acton was the Wavefront Sensing and Controls Scientist for JWST, and is currently a staff consultant at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., where he has worked for the past 20 years. Previously, he worked in the field of adaptive optics for the W.M. Keck Observatory and for the Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. In this video, Dr. Acton shares some of his experiences while working on the JWST project, including some of the telescope's first images.
