Mike Menzel is the NASA Mission Systems Engineer for the JWST at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Menzel has held this position since he joined NASA in June of 2004. His involvement with the James Webb Project extends back to 1998 when he became the Chief Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martinâs Pre-Phase A studies for the then Next Generation Space Telescope and later for Lockheedâs Phase A