Center Overview, Nancy Abell, Associate Director

GSFC Institutional Planning Overview

• Center Planning Overview, Nancy Abell

• Facilities Planning and Budgets, Braulio Ramon, Facilities Planning Office Head

• Technical Equipment Budgets, Karen Flynn, Engineering Deputy Director for Planning and Business Management

Science and Exploration Directorate Planning Overview

• Science Goals and Objectives, Peter Hildebrand, Sciences and Exploration Deputy Director

• Directorate Planning Overview, Mitch Brown, Sciences and Exploration Deputy Director for Planning and Business Management

Overview and Tour of New Exploration and Sciences Building

• Facility Overview, Dave Larsen, Facilities Project Manager

• General Astrophysics and Solar System Exploration Laboratory Under Construction

Laboratories in Earth Systems Sciences Building

• Facility Overview, Jack Richards, Facilities Operations Manager

• Cloud Physics and Wind Lidar Laboratories, David Starr, Mathew McGill, and Bruce Gentry

• Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Paul Mahaffy and Jen Eigenbrode

Laboratories in Building 2

• Facility Overview, Curtis Odell

• Astrobiology Laboratory, Jason Dworkin and Danny Glavin

• X-ray Laboratory, Keith Gendreau

Detector Development Laboratory

• Facility and Technology Development Overview, Rich Barney, Instrument Systems and Technology Division Chief

Committee Discussion with GSFC Scientists

• Status of Institutional Support Infrastructure (high-pressure air, electrical power, steam, etc.) for the Laboratories and Facilities, Rickey Shyne, Director of Facilities and Test

• Status of Test Instrumentation (data acquisition, data reduction, measurement instruments, calibration support, etc.) Support in the Laboratories, Rickey Shyne, Director of Facilities and Test

• Laboratory Support Staffing: Adequacy, Future Outlook, etc., Jih-Fen Lei, Director of Research and Technology

• Center Perspective of Headquarter’s Support of TRL 1-3 Research, Jih-Fen Lei, Director of Research and Technology

• Instrumentation and Controls

  • SiC Crystal Growth Facilities

  • Clean Room; Optical Instrumentation

• Engine Component Research Laboratories

  • Engine Acoustic Research Plus PIV

• ATP Facilities Supporting Low-TRL Research

  • Icing Research Tunnel

  • Icing Physics Flow Laboratory

• Burner Rig Facilities

  • Medium-Pressure Flame Tube Combustion Facility

• Engine Laboratories

  • Single-Stage Compressor Facility

• Engine Component Research Laboratories

  • Supersonic Research in the 15 cm × 15 cm Supersonic Wind Tunnel Facility (SSWT)

• Instrumentation and Controls

  • Actuator Characterization for Control Rig

• Materials and Nanotechnology Laboratory

  • High-Temperature Mass Spectrometry

  • Nanotube Laboratory

• Materials Laboratory

  • Laser Test Rig

  • Polymer Composite Processing Laboratory

• Structures Laboratory

  • Benchmark and Mechanical Testing

• Fuel Research Laboratories

  • Alternative Fuels Laboratory

  • Biofuel Green Laboratory

• ATP Facilities Supporting Low-TRL Research

  • 10×10 SSWT Hypersonics CCE Testing

• Engine Laboratories

  • Active Flow Control

• Meetings with the Scientists and Researchers

• Research Combustion Laboratory

  • Creek Road Cryogenics Complex

• Power Research Laboratories

  • Photovoltaics Research

  • Nanotechnology/Quantum Dot

  • Energy Storage

• Smaller Space Simulation Facilities

  • Electric Propulsion

• Ballistic Impact Facility

• Advanced Metallics Branch Facilities

• 5.2-Second Zero Gravity Facility

• 2.2-Second Drop Tower

• Fire Detection/Combustion Diagnostics

• Combustion Research Laboratory

• Human Research Vision Laboratory

• Biophotonics Research Laboratory, Including Two-Photon, Cell and Tissue Culture

• Tribology and Space Mechanisms Facilities

• Space Environment Simulation

  • Lunar Dust Simulation

  • Particulate Characterization/Separation Laboratories

  • In Situ Resource Utilization Facilities O₂ Extraction Reactor Studies

• Telescience Support Center

• Space Communication Laboratory

  • Antenna Test Facility

• Meeting with the Scientists and Researchers

• Institutional Support Infrastructure, George Finelli, Director, Center Operations

• Test Instrumentation, Allen Kilgore, Deputy Director, Ground Facilities and Testing

• Center Support Staff, Charlie Harris, LaRC Director, Research and Technology

• Center Perspective on TRL 1-3 Research, Charlie Harris

• Measurement Sciences and Acoustics

• Jet Noise Laboratory, Charlotte Whitfield, Head, Aeroacoustics Branch

• Small Anechoic Laboratory, Charlotte Whitfield

• Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Laboratory, Bill Winfree, Head, Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch

• Laser/Lidar Research, Chris Edwards, Head, Laser Remote Sensing Branch

• Safety-Critical Avionics Systems

• High Intensity Radiation Facility, Sandra Koppen, Electromagnetic and Sensors Branch

• Crew Vehicle Systems Research Facility, John Kanishege

• Integrated Vehicle Health Management, Ashok Srivastava and Scott Poll

• Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck, Jessica Nowinski

• Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Rabindra Mehta and J.T Heineck, J. Bell

• Thermal Protection Materials Research Laboratories, Matt Gasch

• Arc Jet Tour Aero-Leg, G. Raiche

• Hyper-velocity Free-Range Aerodynamic Facilities

• Nanotechnology Laboratory, Harry Partridge and Meyyapan Jing Li

• Discussions with Scientists

Welcome: Paul Dimotakis

• Status of institutional support infrastructure

• Status of test instrumentation

• Laboratory support staffing – adequacy, future outlook, etc.

• Center perspective of Headquarters’ support of TRL 1-3 research

• Microdevices Laboratory

• Formation Flying Laboratory

• In-situ (Rover) Laboratory

• Electric Propulsion Laboratory

• Mars Yard

• Superconducting Bolometer Laboratory

• Fundamental Physics/Technology Laboratory

• Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry Laboratories

• Interferometry Laboratory

• Isotope Cosmochemistry Laboratory

• Precision Deployable Aperture Systems Laboratory

• Libs-Raman Bunker Laboratories

• Discussions with Researchers

Welcome: Steve Zornetze, Associate Director

Center Presentation, Carol Carroll, Deputy Director, Science

• Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Observatory and Laboratory, Tom Roelig, SOFIA Deputy Project Scientist

• Laboratory Astrophysics Overview, Jesse Bregman, Chief, Astrophysics Branch

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Clusters Laboratory, Louis Allamandola

• PAH Infrared Properties Laboratory, Andy Mattioda

• Ices and Organics Laboratory, Scott Sandford

• Ultraviolet-Visible Laboratory/Cosmic Simulation Chamber, Farid Salama

• Lunar Dust Mitigation Laboratory, Farid Salama

• Ames Coronagraph Laboratory, Ruslan Belikov

• IR Detector Laboratory, Robert McMurray and Craig McCreight

• Laboratory Astrobiology Overview, Dave Des Marais, PI, Ames NASA Astrobiology Institute Team

• Bio-geochemistry Laboratory, Linda Jahnke

• Planetary Mineralogy Laboratory, David Blake

• Space Biosciences, Debra Reiss-Bubenheim, Assistant Division Chief, Space Biosciences

• Bio-fuels Laboratory, Chad Paavola

• BioVisualization, Imaging and Simulation Technology Center, Richard Boyle and Katya Popova

• Bone and Signaling Laboratory, Ruth Globus and Eduardo Almeida

• Small Model Organisms Laboratory, Sharmila Bhattacharya

• TPS Ablator Laboratory, Matt Gasch and Jeff Figone

• Intelligent Systems, David Korsmeyer, Chief, Intelligent Systems Division

• Advanced Diagnostic and Prognostic Test Laboratory, Ann Patterson-Hine, Kai Goebel

• Researcher Questions and Answers

Overview, Les Johnson, Deputy Manager, Advanced Concepts Office

• National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC), John Davis, Space Science Office Manager, Science and Missions Systems Office

  • X-Ray Telescope and Miniaturized Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope, Jessica Gaskin, Science and Mission Systems Office

  • Dusty Plasma Laboratory, Mian Abbas, Science and Mission Systems Office

• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Ralph Carruth, Manager, Materials and Processes Laboratory

  • Electrostatic Levitator, Jan Rogers, Electrostatic Levitation Facility, Materials and Processes Laboratory

  • Innovative Materials Characterization, Jan Rogers

• Advanced Technology Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), Bob Bagdigian, Branch Chief for ECLSS Development, Science and Mission Systems Office

  • Methane Plasma Pyrolysis, Morgan Abney, Space Systems Department

  • Bosch CO₂ Reduction, Morgan Abney

• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Ralph Carruth

• High Temperature Silicon Carbide Grid, Martin Volz, Failure Analysis and Metallurgy Branch

• International Space Station Materials Science, Ching-Hua Su, Failure Analysis and Metallurgy Branch

• Microfabrication Laboratory, Mike Watson, Chief, Integrated Systems Health Management and Sensors Branch

  • Magneto Optical Trap, Mike Watson

  • Microfabrication Laboratory, Angela Shields, Spacecraft and Vehicle Department

  • Microfabrication Integrated Optics Laboratory, Angela Shields

• Materials Research and Technologies Facility, Ralph Carruth

  • In Situ Resource Utilization, Laurel Karr, Materials Test Branch

  • Ionic Liquids, Steve Paley, Nonmetallic Materials Branch

  • Microwave Water Extraction, Ed Ethridge, Engineering Directorate

• Propulsion Research and Development Laboratory (PRDL), Harold Gerrish, Propulsion Systems Department

  • Solar Thermal Propulsion

  • High Power Plasma Laboratory

  • Nuclear Thermal Rocket Element Environmental Simulator Nuclear Fuel Simulator

  • Chemical Synthesis Laboratory

  • Simulated Fission Laboratory with Antimatter Trap

• Meeting with Researchers