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1 Welcome to the Sciences and Exploration Directorate!
Dr. Colleen Hartman Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate NASA’s first Space Flight Center (established 1959) We TRANSFORM Human Understanding of Earth and Space Largest Collection of Scientists & Engineers in the U.S. Nearly 300 successful missions including the World’s First Weather Satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics [Big Bang/Cosmic Background] Hubble Supported 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics WMAP Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Prize for Cosmology

2 Agenda Who we are What we do How we do it Why we do it

3 Quick Facts About SED Largest Earth and Space Science Research organization in the world Located in Greenbelt, New York and Wallops Flight Facility with 2640 people: 543 Civil servants including ~400 Scientists ~600 Co-located Post-Docs and University Scientists ~1,500 Support Contractors, Visitors, Students, Emeritus, and other staff

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5 Agenda Who we are What we do How we do it Why we do it

6 • How does the Earth – atmosphere, ice, oceans,
land, humans – work? • How do we humans impact the climate? • How will the Earth’s climate evolve in the future? • How does the sun work? • When does space harm us? • How to live within a star’s atmosphere? • How does the universe work? • Where did we come from? • Are we alone? • How did our solar system form and evolve? • Can we find evidence of life elsewhere in the solar system? • What are the different environments and processes in our solar system?

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8 GSFC: A Diverse Mission Portfolio
TRACE ACE SOHO RHESSI Wind Voyager Geotail TIMED FAST Polar Stereo THEMIS IMAGE MMS Solar-B QuikSCAT ACRIMSAT EO-1 COBE Landsat 7 TRMM TDRSS Aqua Terra CloudSat CALIPSO GRACE SORCE ICESat-2 Messenger Cassini New Horizons LRO Aquarius RXTE Cluster SDO NPP AIM LDCM GPM TOMS JWST Compton GRO HST Spitzer Swift FUSE GALEX Fermi WMAP Mars Science Laboratory POES GOES WISE IBEX Aura MAVEN Juno LADEE RBSP TWINS (Instrument) EUVE SWAS NuSTAR Integral IUE ERBS TOPEX Osiris-Rex (Sample Return) Pioneer Galileo Astro-H 8

9 Upcoming Launches

10 Agenda Who we are What we do How we do it Why we do it

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