Jul 27 2011
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-157 NASA TO UNVEIL FULL-FRAME IMAGE OF VESTA AT NEWS CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's successful orbit insertion around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from Dawn's framing camera. The news conference will be held in the Von Karman auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, Calif. The news conference panelists are: -- Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Charles Elachi, director, JPL -- Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission manager, JPL -- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, University of California, Los Angeles -- Holger Sierks, framing camera team member, Max Planck Society, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany -- Enrico Flamini, chief scientist, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy Although Dawn is collecting some science data now, the mission's intensive collection of information will begin in early August. Observations of the giant asteroid Vesta will provide unprecedented data to help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After spending one year orbiting Vesta, Dawn will travel to a second destination, the dwarf planet Ceres, and arrive there in February 2015.
RELEASE: 11-246 NASA AWARDS SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANTS
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the inaugural class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Eighty-one students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist to pursue master's or doctoral degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at their respective institutions. This first class of Space Technology Fellows is part of NASA's strategy to develop the technological foundation for its future science and exploration missions. The program's goal is to provide the nation with a pipeline of highly skilled engineers and technologists to improve U.S. competitiveness. "These fellowships will develop America's technology leaders for tomorrow, leaders that will help us out-innovate, out-educate and out-build our competitors and maintain our leadership in space," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "President Obama has said, 'America's competitiveness rests on the excellence of our citizens in technical fields.' These grants are an investment in America's intellectual capital and our nation's future." NASA Space Technology Fellows will perform innovative space technology research while building the skills necessary to become future technological leaders. Selected candidates will perform graduate student research on their respective campuses and at NASA centers and nonprofit U.S. research and development laboratories.
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