NASA History Community:
We have several news items to share today.
First, following the recent publication of
NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration,
Michael Neufeld and David Brown will be speaking about this book next Wednesday 7 February at noon ET.
They will explain the unusual evolution of this history project and their roles in it, as well as the book’s content. In it, author Susan M. Niebur drew on interviews with program managers, engineers, and scientists from Discovery’s early missions to
take an in-depth, yet accessible, look at the management techniques in this innovative Planetary Science Division program of robotic spacecraft. Please click on this
MS
Teams link to attend. Attached is a brief note about this presentation.
Please also mark your calendars on
Wednesday 21 February, also at noon ET, for an insightful talk by R. Lincoln Hines on China’s historical quest for prestige in space. We have several other exciting NASA History lunchtime talks planned for this spring, so please stay tuned for more
details.
Regarding other talks that may be of interest this spring, please see the Web sites about the National Air and Space Museum
(NASM)’s
Exploring Space Lecture series and
New
York University’s Space Talks series.
Regarding NASA internships, please see
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/internship-programs/
for more information. The summer 2024 application rolling decision deadline
is 2 February.
Information about NASM summer internships is available
here
and the application deadline for these is 29 February.
In addition, information about Fellowships in Aerospace History is available
online
and the deadline for these applications is 1 April.
Please feel free to share this information with others who may be interested. Thanks very much.
-Steve
Stephen Garber
(he/him)
NASA History Division
Office of Communications
NASA Headquarters
Mary W. Jackson Building, Room 5P25
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
