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Pre-Earth Day Celebration and Upcoming NFS Speaker

  • 1.  Pre-Earth Day Celebration and Upcoming NFS Speaker

    Posted 06 Apr, 2022 20:17
    Pre-Earth Day Celebration Registration
    April 12, between 10 AM ET and 5:30 PM ET – Join the NASA eClips Team, Advisory Board Members, Student Teams, and NASA Partners for hands-on activities to learn more about our home planet Tuesday, April 12, 2022 starting at 10:00 am (ET).
    If you have any questions, please reach out to Public Policy Officer Dr. Joi C. Spraggins.

    Invite your students and their families to follow along with the presenters during hands-on activities. Each activity will focus on a different aspect of Earth. Register using this link.


    DART Mission Operations NFS Guest Speaker
    Register Here
    NASA's first flight mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and
    validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The DART mission aims to shift an
    asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact – specifically, by smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the
    binary asteroid system Didymos. Please join us this month when Ray Harvey, DART Mission Operations Manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, briefs us on this first of its kind mission, including ground preparation and testing of the spacecraft, mission operations en route, and the approach and terminal phases prior to impact, currently scheduled for September 26th at 7:14 PM EDT.



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    Jonathan Moore
    Lockheed Martin Space Systems
    AIAA GPS Chair
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