Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 1:00pm EST
In-Person / Local
8800 Greenbelt Road
Greenbelt, MD 20771
United StatesNCS AIChE has been invited to tour the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland on November 16, 2016. This event is free to attent, however registration is capped at 24 participants on a first come first serve basis. Please stay tuned for registration instructions.
What: Tour of NASA Goddard Space Center
When: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016, 1 PM
Where: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Cost: Free
Tour will start from the Visitor Center at 1pm, November 16th (Wednesday), 2016. The guided tour will start with an introduction "Science On a Sphere" in the auditorium in the Visitor Center, followed by a short on-site bus-ride to buildings B29, B7, B10. The on-site bus will take the group back to the Visitor Center and be discharged there. The tour will end at 3pm. Before/after the guided tour, you are welcome to explore the various exhibits at the Visitor Center: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home
Check-in & Parking: Please bring an ID (driver's license, passport, or a student ID). Park your car at the Visitor Center parking lot and meet at the reception desk inside the Visitor Center. Direction: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/directions
Advance Registration Required. Open to everyone -- members and guests. US Citizenship is not required; however, if you are a non-US citizen, please register ASAP with country/passport #, to allow NASA/Goddard to process extra paperwork in a timely manner. Registration is capped at 24 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Please stay tuned for registration instructions
About NASA/Goddard and the Tour (copied from: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about )
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe.
Just outside Washington, Goddard is home to Hubble operations and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Goddard manages communications between mission control and orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Goddard scientists stare into the sun, grind up meteorites for signs of life's building blocks, look into the farthest reaches of space, and untangle the mysteries of our own changing world. Goddard engineers construct sensitive instruments, build telescopes that peer into the cosmos, and operate the test chambers that ensure those satellites' survival.
Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight complex. Goddard and its several installations are critical in carrying out NASA's missions of space exploration and scientific discovery.
Work at Goddard covers all fields of engineering, including chemical engineering, heat insulation, instrumentation, refrigeration/cryogenics, etc. Come to learn about the exciting work|projects being carried out at NASA/Goddard.
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