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Program News and Announcements

4 September 2020

SMD Community Town Hall on Thurs 10 September

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team on Thurs 10 September at 12 noon Eastern/11a Central/10a Mountain/9a Pacific, to discuss updates to NASA’s science program and the current status of NASA activities.

Members of SMD, the science community, academia, the media, and the public are invited to participate by joining at this link. If prompted, please use event number 199 074 4251, followed by event password Zk4n3G48gbd.

To ask a question, participants can use the session dashboard. Users must provide their first and last name and organization and can submit their own questions or vote up questions submitted by others. The meeting leaders will try to answer as many of the submitted questions as possible.

Presentation materials will be available for download and a recording will be available later that day on the SMD website.
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