NASA Opportunities Workshop April 8, 2004

NASA Workshop Agenda 10:00-10:10 Workshop Objectives & CSRP Overview John Nousek 10:10-10:30 New Directions for NASA Thomas Taylor 10:30-10:40 Workshop Process & Goals Eddie Crow 10:40-11:45 Breakout Sessions for Defining NASA Opportunities 11:45-12:30 Open Discussions on Proposed Concepts 12:30-1:30 LUNCH CSRP NASA Workshop

Workshop Objectives Spread awareness of NASA’s new vision and objectives. Create a list of PSU targets for new NASA missions Communicate the goals and objectives of the Center for Space Research Programs. CSRP NASA Workshop

CSRP Guiding Principles All faculty and staff working with CSRP have ‘home’ appointments in one of PSU’s Colleges or ARL Individual projects will be assigned to the PI’s home college and participating PSU faculty and staff are matrixed to the projects CSRP projects will have full PSU resources at their disposal, without regard to artificial College boundaries CSRP will support all aspects of the project (Research, Technology, and Programmatic) CSRP NASA Workshop

What does CSRP do? Mission oriented science and technology center Catalyst for PSU faculty to undertake medium to large space projects Facilitates implementation of missions by coordinating resources from across the entire University Provides unified external interfaces under the “Auspices of the Center for Space Research Programs (CSRP)” Initial point of contact at PSU for space research programs CSRP NASA Workshop