 Dr. Sneden  Dr. Hemenway  SOFIA  NSF

National Air and Space Museum

 NASA Townhall –  NASA Chief Administrator Charlie Bolden

Neil deGrasse Tyson

 Data pipeline  Input from audience  Ramping up ◦ Video of the hatch

 STS-31  Wide Field Camera 3  Cosmic origins Spectrograph  19 years!  Must see! Hubble 3-D Must see! Hubble 3-D

 What determines the choice of orbit? ◦ Cost ◦ Interference ◦ Data stream ◦ Stability ◦ Maintenance

 Geostationary  Low-Earth  Heliocentric/Earth-trailing  Lissajous  Lagrange Points

"NASA/CXC/SAO"

Public domain photo

 Heliocentric orbit Ahead and Behind Heliocentric orbit Ahead and Behind  “There’s an app for that”

SOHO – L1 Storage? – L4,L5 Herschel – L2 James Webb – L2 Planet X? L3 Animation

 European Space Agency  with significant NASA  participation

 Launched May 2009  1 st large telescope in space 3.5m  Observes over entire far infrared/submillimeter wavelengths  3 instruments ◦ PACS ◦ SPIRE ◦ HIFI – heterodyne instrument for the far infrared

 Astronomy as a bridge to scientific literacy  Educate parents indirectly  Persevere

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