1. August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Through the Eyes of NASA
C. Alex Young
Associate Director for Science
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
AAS229– January 7, 2016
This is HUGE.  All these people can see it. Also huge because every center, every division can play in the sandbox.  Bigger than even a mission launch or getting to Pluto. 
Basic NASA role: safety; teaching moment of celestial geometry; NASA science
NASA science info to come soon, but this is one place where NASA can really stake out its own messages. these missions will be watching; there will be balloons; it’s not ONLY sun science, but also the chance to watch temperature and luminosity changes in the shadow of the moon; there will be airplanes doing science from the air. this is a fantastic chance to explain more about helio and earth science. 
But also planetary and astro — transits are how we find exoplanets, for example.  So we’ll be coordinating across all these centers. 
From an education perspective we are partnering with all these people — who? — and we are doing these things.  Glasses made available (Want some? Get on the call to ride!) 
From a communications perspective, things are beginning to roll now and there are plans for a really coordinated TV effort, interviews, etc. If you already are starting to think about comms stuff, let Dwayne Brown and Karen Fox know.  

2. For three glorious minutes, I felt transported to another planet, indeed to a higher plane of reality, as my consciousness departed the earth and I gaped at an alien sky … It looked like an enormous wreath woven from silvery thread, and it hung suspended in the immensity of space, shimmering. – David Baron
This is HUGE.  All these people can see it. Also huge because every center, every division can play in the sandbox.  Bigger than even a mission launch or getting to Pluto. 
Basic NASA role: safety; teaching moment of celestial geometry; NASA science
NASA science info to come soon, but this is one place where NASA can really stake out its own messages. these missions will be watching; there will be balloons; it’s not ONLY sun science, but also the chance to watch temperature and luminosity changes in the shadow of the moon; there will be airplanes doing science from the air. this is a fantastic chance to explain more about helio and earth science. 
But also planetary and astro — transits are how we find exoplanets, for example.  So we’ll be coordinating across all these centers. 
From an education perspective we are partnering with all these people — who? — and we are doing these things.  Glasses made available (Want some? Get on the call to ride!) 
From a communications perspective, things are beginning to roll now and there are plans for a really coordinated TV effort, interviews, etc. If you already are starting to think about comms stuff, let Dwayne Brown and Karen Fox know.  

7. Mass of the Earth
Lunar Distance by Parallax
Diming of the Light
X Marks the Spot
Lunar Shadow Speed
Measuring Temperature
Lunar Distance from Speed
Testing GR
Shadow Bands

8. Any questions? WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! c.alex.young@nasa.gov
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