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Program News and Announcements

23 September 2022

Science Mission Directorate Community Town Hall on 6 October 2022

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas H. Zurbuchen and his leadership team on Thursday 6 October 2022 at 10:30a Eastern/9:30a Central/8:30a Mountain/7:30a Pacific, to discuss updates to NASA’s science program and share the current status of NASA activities.

Members of SMD, the science community, academia, the media, and the public are invited to participate by joining via WebEx using this link. If prompted, please use event number 2764 141 1204, followed by event password PNpncwFe834 (76762933 from phones).

Participants are invited to submit questions and/or vote up questions using the event’s 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.

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