Henry Yang, Board Chair, Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, issued the following statement in response to today’s release of the Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s Decadal Survey:
“The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), an international collaboration, thanks the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for its thorough work to prioritize the next decade’s astronomy and astrophysics projects and programs. We are grateful for the science community’s support for our project, and acknowledge it is just one step in a process. We will review the full report carefully and evaluate our next steps."
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