1. Overview of NASA’s goals in Education/Public Outreach (E/PO) and in Astrobiology John W. Delano Associate Director, New York Center for Astrobiology (NASA) Distinguished Teaching Professor Dept. of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences The University at Albany (SUNY) jdelano@csc.albany.edu http://www.origins.rpi.edu

3. NASA Educational Strategic Framework: A Portfolio Approach (2007)

5. NASA’s Educational Strategic Framework

6. Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe.

7. Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in the Solar System

8. Goal 3: Understanding cosmic and planetary precursors that led to life

9. Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth developed and evolved by integrating evidence from both geologic and biomolecular records

10. Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits to life

11. Goal 6: Explore the adaptation, survival, and evolution of microbial life under conditions beyond its planet of origin

12. Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth

13. NASA’s search for life in the galaxy: Information from exoplanets and the ancient Earth John W. Delano, Ph.D. Associate Director, New York Center for Astrobiology (NASA) Distinguished Teaching Professor Dept. of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences The University at Albany (SUNY) jdelano@csc.albany.edu http://www.origins.rpi.edu