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NASA'S Green Summit, Discovery's Rollover, Marshall's 50th and more on This Week at NASA!
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Temat: Nauka i technologia
This Week At NASA...
The Ames Research Center was the scene of
a gathering of experts from government, industry
and academia meeting to discuss the agency’s
green aviation research efforts
…doing research in alternative bio-fuels.
and showcase groundbreaking solutions NASA
and its partners are developing to reduce
the impact of aviation systems on the environment.
Over a two day period, attendees heard researchers,
scientists, technicians and leading policymakers,
present on the latest emerging environmentally
sensitive aviation technologies.
Please join us in welcoming our NASA Administrator,
Mr. Bolden.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden addressed
the group on day one of the event.
We’re so excited at NASA about the opportunities
we’re being given, in the coming years,
to help develop solutions to some of our most
pressing aviation problems, and create the
next generation of air transportation systems
that will last generations and make us all
safer and make the planet a better place That’s
a huge challenge, but we at NASA enthusiastically
accept it.
The clock is winding down as NASA astronauts
and ground crews continue to ready hardware
and facilities for the next shuttle mission
to the International Space Station – STS-133.
Space shuttle Discovery rolled over, from
the Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing
Facility-3 to the Vehicle Assembly Building,
VAB where it was mated to two solid rocket
boosters and a fuel tank. In the meantime,
Discovery’s crew, Commander Steve Lindsey,
Pilot Eric Boe, and Mission Specialists Michael
Barratt, Tim Kopra, Nicole Stott and Alvin
Drew, continue their training for a scheduled
November 1 flight.
The administrator graciously gave up a little
of his time off this Labor Day to participate
in festivities on the National Mall.
For me, it’s an honor to be asked to come
out here with the National Symphony in front
of people from all over the country, I have
learned by walking around and talking to some
people, and actually from all around the world.
Just to have them hear the name NASA, as a
part of this concert, I think, is really important,
and then having heard the music before from
Apollo 13, I think they will be moved, as
I am, and that’s really important.
Bolden introduced a musical segment from the
film Apollo 13 performed by the National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Emil de Cou. The segment
honored the 40th anniversary of the mission.
I want to thank the NSO for recognizing the
great accomplishments of our human spaceflight
program with this tribute tonight to Apollo
13. So, I invite you -- enjoy!
Apollo 13 launched from the Kennedy Space
Center on April 11, 1970. The space vehicle
crew included Commander Jim Lovell, Command
Module pilot John Swigert, and Lunar Module
Pilot, Fred Haise. The annual Labor Day Concert
is held on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
Also, over the Labor Day weekend, actor/rapper
Mos Def and astronaut Leland Melvin teamed
up to share NASA’s Summer of Innovation
program with young people at the Instituting
Science in Schools Science and Cultural Festival
at the Chabot Observatory in Oakland, California,
and people attending the Tom Joyner Morning
Show Family Reunion in Orlando, Florida.
Without science and technology, you wouldn’t
be able to enjoy the radio, television, the
internet.
Def and Melvin, using cutting-edge, holographic
video technology, shared their enthusiasm
for science, technology and exploration, participating
in events occurring 3,000 miles apart. Later,
at the Reunion, Melvin was part of a the Legends
and Trailblazers panel, which included Star
Trek star Nichelle Nichols who played Lieutenant
Uhuru on the popular 60’s TV series.
NASA’s Summer of Innovation program is a
multi-faceted project to promote and improve
science, technology, engineering and mathematics
in middle schools.
Just get out there and get good grades, cause
that’s the thing, if you want to work at
NASA; we take the best and the brightest.
We’ll help build you up, but you’ve got
to have something for us to start with to
begin with.
The Dryden Flight Research Center held a special
media event to discuss the Genesis and Rapid
Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment,
a multi-center campaign designed to better
understand how tropical storms form and develop
into major hurricanes.
With GRIP we are trying to get a lot more
high-resolution measurements, and with a single
airplane we may only have five-six hours on
a storm, with Global Hawk, maybe 15 hours
on a single storm.
Media were introduced to the various aircraft
involved in the GRIP mission, including the
Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne aircraft.
We have several new instruments that provide
new measurement capabilities to study hurricanes
and we’re coordinating with other federal
agencies, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation.
During GRIP each plane will fly at various
altitudes and carries a suite of remote sensing
instruments to observe and characterize the
lifecycle of hurricanes.
The DC-8 aircraft was deployed to Florida
and recently flew into the eye of hurricane
Earl.
And Now Centerpieces…
The Marshall Space Flight Center marked its
50th anniversary with multiple events honoring
the work of several generations.
Marshall Space Flight Center leaders unveiled
an Alabama historic marker commemorating the
formation of the NASA center -- and the subsequent
50 years of Marshall innovation. The marker
was placed at the visitor’s center for Redstone
Arsenal, Marshall’s home for the past 50
years.
We really appreciate the recognition from
our friends, neighbors, colleagues and patrons
from Huntsville and the state capital. Thank
you from the Marshall Space Flight Center
team, at T-plus-50 years and counting.
To commemorate the historic anniversary, Marshall
employees posed for an aerial photograph,
by forming a giant 50. Immediately following
the photo shoot, current and former NASA employees
and contractors were invited to a brief social,
which included remarks from center director
Robert Lightfoot, a panel of astronauts discussing
their experiences at the Marshall Center,
presentations of vintage photographs from
the center’s past, and historical displays,
including the office desk of rocket pioneer
and the first Marshall director – Dr. Werner
Von Braun.
The Cities of Huntsville and Madison, along
with Madison County, Alabama declared Sept.
8 Marshall Space Flight Center Day.
On Sept. 8, 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower
visited Huntsville to lead the Marshall Center’s
dedication ceremony.
I dedicate this, the George C. Marshall Space
Flight Center. May this great center be ever
worthy of its honored name.
He unveiled a bust of the center's namesake,
U.S. Army Gen. George C. Marshall, who received
the Nobel Prize in 1953 for overseeing the
European Recovery Program or Marshall Plan,
which secured $13 billion dollars in post-war
food, machinery and other aid for Europe.
Fans don’t forget to visit the Little League
Baseball Museum where a special exhibition
is now available from the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
NASA was a big hit at this year's Little League
World Series, from the official first pitch
thrown from outer space, to the astronaut
meet and greet, to the more than16,000 fans
who checked out NASA exhibits including the
Exploration Experience in 3D. The exhibits
were open throughout the Little League World
Series tournament, and included a touchable
moon rock, demonstrations of what exhibit-goers
might look like as astronauts, and displays
informing the public about some of the practical
research NASA’s is engaged in that benefits
everyday life here on earth, and a presentation
of a Little League patch flown by space shuttle
pilot Colonel Terry Virts during mission STS-130.
And that’s This Week At NASA!
For more on these and other stories log on
to www.nasa.gov
