NASA Celebrates Fifty Years
Join NASA in celebrating its fiftieth anniversary by reviewing exciting discoveries and images from past missions, watching special lectures from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Dr. Stephen Hawking, or visiting interactive Web features that walk you through each decade since the Agency’s inception. See how NASA has contributed to inspiration, innovation, and discovery for half a century, what it is accomplishing today, and what it plans for the future. Visit the anniversary Web site athttps://www.nasa.gov/50th.
Reminder: PM Challenge 2009
The NASA PM Challenge is the Agency’s annual forum for NASA stakeholders to connect and discover current trends in program management, project management, and related disciplines by sharing their knowledge, lessons learned, and new ideas that enhance mission success. PM Challenge 2009, the Agency’s sixth annual project management conference, will be held February 24–25, 2009, in Daytona Beach, Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center. Registration opens November 3, 2008. For more information, and to register, visit http://pmchallenge.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Web of Knowledge
Ever wonder about what the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed? Explore a wealth of deep-space images, including far-off galaxies, planets, nebulae, and more at http://hubblesite.org. Also watch video podcasts and short movies about how galaxies interact with each other and even combine to make new galaxies, black holes, other astronomy highlights from Hubble, and celestial events at-home astronomers can witness each month. The site also has resources for children and educators to assist with learning about our cosmos.
For More on Our Stories
Additional information pertaining to articles featured in this issue can be found by visiting the following Web sites:
Apollo
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo
Viking
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking
Space Shuttle and International Space Station
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/index.html
NASA History Office
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