Goddard 2015: John Grunsfeld, NASA

On the Cusp: What’s Next

John M. Grunsfeld PhDAssociate Administrator, Science

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Pi Day -- 3.14.15

July 18, 2018

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Solar Probe Plus

January 31, 2015

1.31.15

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

First 'SMAPshots'

March 6, 2015

3.6.15

Dawn arrives at Ceres

First visit to a dwarf planet dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

July 14, 2015

7.14.15 7:50 EDT

August 2017

8.17

Transiting Exoplanet

Survey Satellite (TESS)

October 2018

10.18

James Webb

Space Telescope

…going where no Hubble has gone

before

JWST is about beginnings

the beginning of galaxies

the beginning of stars

the beginning of planets and life

Europa: The Ocean That Beckons

Roth et al. (2013). Science.

Hydrogen Oxygen

H & O emission lines from Hubble

\ST with

Superimposed Europa image from Galileo

Water Vapor Plumes on Europa?

Achieving Alignment for Pioneering Space

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