Jul 13 2015
From The Space Library
Release M15-105 Sen. Mikulski, NASA Deputy Administrator Tour NASA’s New Horizons Mission Operations Center Today
Maryland Senator Barbara A. Mikulski will join NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland today for a briefing on the status of the New Horizons Pluto mission and a tour of the mission operations center.
The briefing and tour will be closed to the media, but will be followed by a media availability with Mikulski, Newman, Grunsfeld and Semmel from 12:40 to 1 p.m. Media interested in participating should arrive at APL’s Kossiakoff Center, located at 11100 Johns Hopkins Road.
New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the third zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants.
APL designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Release M15-106 NASA, Agriculture Department Deputies to Sign Interagency Agreement for Earth Science, Agricultural Research
NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden will sign an interagency agreement and hold a media availability from 10 to 11 a.m. PDT on Thursday, July 16, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
The signing event formalizes collaboration between NASA and the USDA and establishes a framework for enhanced cooperation in the areas of Earth science research, technology, agricultural management, and the application of science data, models and technology in agricultural decision-making.
The agencies also seek to better collaborate on education and communication activities that inspire youth in America to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Following the signing, Newman and Harden will be available for questions, and members of the media may accompany the deputies during a demonstration highlighting NASA and USDA research data at Ames' hyperwall. The hyperwall is a 23-by-10 foot liquid crystal display composed of 128 screens, totaling 245 million pixels, used to display and analyze science and engineering results from NASA’s high-fidelity modeling and simulation projects.
