Jack Boyd in his office

Prince Willem Alexander (Crown Prince of the Netherlands) visits Ames shown here with Jack Boyd

British royalty visits Ames; Prince Andrew, Duke of York greeted by Jack Boyd, Executive Assistant of Center Director

President George W. Bush lands at Moffett Field, CA aboard Air Force One. Is greeted by Bill Berry and Jack Boyd

President George W. Bush lands at Moffett Field, CA. Is greeted by Colonel James T. Williams, Cammander, 129th Rescue Wing California Air National Guard and NASA Ames Executive Assistant Jack Boyd

At Dr Hans Mark; Ames Director 1969-1977 farewell party are (left to right) Alan Chambers, Dale Compton, Jack Boyd, Hans Mark, Lloyd Jones, and John Dusterberry.

President George W. Bush lands at Moffett Field, CA. Is greeted by NASA Ames' Deputy Director William (Bill) Berry and NASA Ames Executive Assistant Jack Boyd.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Directors hall; L-R: O'Keefe, Jack Boyd, Dr Henry McDonald

NASA Advisory Council Meeting at NASA Ames Research Center NRP Conference Center. Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, Marion Blakey, Chair, Aeronautics Committee and Jack Boyd, Ames Senior Advisor to Center Director/Historian

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Ribbon Cutting ceremony for exhibit, With Jack Boyd, Mt View Mayor, Lewis Braxton III and

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Ribbon Cutting ceremony for exhibit, With Jack Boyd, Mt View Mayor, Lewis Braxton III and

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Ribbon Cutting ceremony for exhibit, With Jack Boyd, Mt View Mayor, Lewis Braxton III and

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Jack Boyd, Ames Special Advisor to the Director and Historian, gives a brief hisory.

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Jack Boyd, Ames Special Advisor to the Director and Historian, gives a brief hisory.

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Jack Boyd, Ames educates the younger generation at the exhibit on wind tunnel models

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Jack Boyd, Ames Special Advisor to the Director and Historian, gives a brief hisory.

Jack Boyd (Left) with Rosie Rios, the 43rd Treasurer of the United States explores how understanding our history will provide a clearer roadmap for understanding where the country's future is heading. Presented by the Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) and the Hispanic Advisory Committee for Employees (HACE) in the Syvertson Auditorium (N-201) at Ames Research Center. Jack Boyd with Rosie Rios

Ames hosts Press Event for talk with STS-135 Astronauts onboard the Space Shuttle. Jack Boyd, Ames speaks with KGO reporter Jeanne Lynch.

Jack Boyd, Special Assistant to the Center Director (center) and The Honorable George P. Schultz during a Visit and tour of Ames Research Center.

Ames 70 Year Anniversary Exhibit in downtown Mountain View, California. Grand Opening at Meyer Appliance, Castro Street. Left to right Lewis Braxton III, Ames Deputy Center Director, Mr Meyer III, and Jack Boyd, Ames awaiting the opening ceremony.

LCROSS Impact Night: From left to right John Marmie, Jack Boyd, Lewis Braxton, III, Tina Panontin, Pete Worden (center front) Chuck Duff, in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR). All right, impact!

Ames 70th Anniversary Turn Back the Clock Day with antique Class Cars and Classic Car parade around the center. Lewis Braxton III, Ames Deputy Center Director and Jack Boyd, Ames Historian pose by Lew's Mustang before leading the parade.

LCROSS Impact Night: In the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR). From left to right, John Marmie, Jack Boyd, Lew Braxton, Pete Worden, Tina Panontin (looking at wall monitor) and Chuck Duff awaiting confirmation of impact

Ames 70th Anniversary Turn Back the Clock Day with antique Class Cars and Classic Car parade around the center. Lewis Braxton III, Ames Deputy Center Director and Jack Boyd, Ames Historian lead the parade in Lew's Mustang.

LCROSS Impact Night: From left to right John Marmie, Jack Boyd, Lewis Braxton, III, Tina Panontin, Pete Worden (center front) Chuck Duff, in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR). All right, impact!

LCROSS Impact Night: From left to Right Jack Boyd, unknown, Pete Klupar, (middle) Lewis Braxton III, Pete Worden, John Marmie (back) Tina Panontin (seated), Chuck Duff and unknown in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR).

Ames hosts Press Event for talk with STS-135 Astronauts onboard the Space Shuttle, Jack Boyd (seated) and John Yembrick, PAO chief go over interview points.

Jack Boyd greeting VIP visitors to NASA Ames Research Center Top left to right; His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Andrew, Duke of York (AC02-0028 series) Senator Newt Gingrich (AC00-0032 series) Singer John Denver (AC85-0686 series) Middle; Prince Willem Alexander, Crown Prince of the Netherlands (AC99-0013 series) Bottom left to right; United States President George G.W. Bush (ACD02-0082 series), Actor and Diplomat Shirley Temple Black (AC99-0071 series). Air Force Test Pilot Charles 'Chuck' Yeager AC98-0204 series).

Ames 70_year picture day on Flight line. Center Director S. Pete Worden, Jack Boyd, Lewis Braxton, III start the line on the seven.

Ames 70_year picture day on Flight line. Center Director S. Pete Worden, ______, Jack Boyd, Lewis Braxton, III, Tim Naumowicz start the line on the seven.

JOHN CARR, CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR NASA'S LIGHTWEIGHT INTEGRATED SOLAR ARRAY AND TRANSCEIVER PROJECT, KNEELS TO SHOW HOW ONE OF THE THIN-FILM SIDES OR "PETALS" IN WHICH PHOTO-VOLTAIC CELLS ARE EMBEDDED, IS FOLDED AND STOWED BEFORE LAUNCH. LOOKING ON DURING A DEMONSTRATION AFTER TESTING AT NEXOLVE, ARE LES JOHNSON, LEFT, ALSO CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, AND DARREN BOYD, RIGHT, THE RADIO FREQUENCY LEAD FOR THE PROJECT.

John W. 'Jack Boyd holds a plaque presented to Harvey Allen in recognition of his outstanding solution of the reentry heating problem which has been indispensable to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (Manned Spacecraft Center, November 14, 1968) Plaque contains samples of tested materials and models of spacecraft.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki, NASA Ames Scientist on the Kepler Mission and John W. 'Jack' Boyd, NASA Ames Historian at the Ames Arc Jet Complex, Aerodynamic Heating Facility talking with a Mercury News photographer about the Kepler Mission and the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission.

Dr William 'Bill' Borucki, NASA Ames Scientist on the Kepler Mission and John W. 'Jack' Boyd, NASA Ames Historian at the Ames Arc Jet Complex, Aerodynamic Heating Facility talking with a Mercury News photographer about the Kepler Mission and the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission.

2010 Yuri's Night celebration held at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. as part of the world wide celebration of the first man in space and the Space Shuttle program that followed 20 years later. From left to Right, Wizard Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, Jack Boyd, Senior Advisor to the Director, Lewis Braxton, III, Deputy Director of Ames Research Center, Klingon S. Pete Worden, Director, Ames Research Center, Karen Bradford, Chief of Staff, Deborah Feng, Director, Center Operations.

NASA Astrophysicist and Host of NASA's Curious Universe podcast Padi Boyd is seen during a Podcast Movement, NASA hosted a panel entitled, "Eclipses, Moon Missions, and Climate Change: How NASA Reaches Curious Listeners", Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Grad student Nicholas Boyd left and Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert, both of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, prepare for the installation of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer sensor head during testing at NASA JPL.

Portrait: John W 'Jack' Boyd

NACA Photographer John W. Boyd explaining the efficiencies of conical camber

Summer Internship for 2008 closing ceremony: Jack Boyd, Ames Senior Advisor

NASA Audio Lead Katie Konans, left, NASA Multimedia Producer and Host of Houston, We Have a Podcast Dane Turner, NASA Writer and Host of the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast Andrés Almeida, NASA Astrophysicist and Host of NASA's Curious Universe podcast Padi Boyd, and NASA Audio Engineer Manny Cooper, right, are seen during a Podcast Movement, NASA hosted a panel entitled, "Eclipses, Moon Missions, and Climate Change: How NASA Reaches Curious Listeners", Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Audio Lead Katie Konans, left, NASA Multimedia Producer and Host of Houston, We Have a Podcast Dane Turner, NASA Writer and Host of the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast Andrés Almeida, NASA Astrophysicist and Host of NASA's Curious Universe podcast Padi Boyd, and NASA Audio Engineer Manny Cooper, right, are seen during a Podcast Movement, NASA hosted a panel entitled, "Eclipses, Moon Missions, and Climate Change: How NASA Reaches Curious Listeners", Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASAAdministrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room, Directors briefing

Portrait: John W 'Jack' Boyd, Senior Advisor & Ombuds, NASA Ames Research Center 2008

Ames engineers Allen Faye, Merrill Mead and John 'Jack' Boyd discuss aircraft design and handling

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room, Directors briefing

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room, Directors briefing

Professor John Beddington, UK (United Kingdom) Government Chief Scientist Advisor visit to Ames in Bldg N-200 Boyd Room

Professor John Beddington, UK (United Kingdom) Government Chief Scientist Advisor visit to Ames with John Hinein N-200 Boyd Room

IFMP Steering Committee Meeting, Boyd Room N-200; Briefing by Avue Co. creators of the Position Description Management. (lead by Greg Joselyn)

IFMP Steering Committee Meeting, Boyd Room N-200; Briefing by Avue Co. creators of the Position Description Management. (lead by Greg Joselyn)

Professor John Beddington, UK (United Kingdom) Government Chief Scientist Advisor visit to Ames in Bldg N-200 Boyd Room

Professor John Beddington, UK (United Kingdom) Government Chief Scientist Advisor visit to Ames in Bldg N-200 Boyd Room

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofsetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. clockwise Jack Boyd, Miss Mead daughter of Carol Mead, Carol Mead and Carolyn Hofstetter

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room L-R; O'Keefe and Dr. Henry McDonald, Ames Director

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofstetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. Left to right Carol Mead and Jack Boyd

Professor John Beddington, UK (United Kingdom) Government Chief Scientist Advisor visit to Ames - greeted by Ames Center Director Pete Worden in Bldg N-200 Boyd Room

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofstetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. Jack Boyd talk of working in the same 6ft w.t. group as Carol Mead.

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofstetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. Attending event are Jack Boyd and Cathy Lee

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe comes to Ames for employee briefing and tour. N-200 Boyd committee room L-R; O'Keefe and Dr Harry McDonald, Ames Director

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver visits Ames for a employee all-hands and press briefing during Budget 2012 rollout week. Shown here with Jack Boyd.

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofstetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. Left to right Computers Carolyn Hofstetter, Carol Mead and Jack Boyd

“It was part of my career, but then it was also personal. I was doing it on a volunteer basis, but it was part of my work because I was bringing my service dog in training everywhere with me, which meant to work every day and to meetings at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). And I was taking the dog across the country to meetings over at Ball Aerospace; that was all part of the training of a service dog. That was an incredible time. I really enjoyed it. “The fact that I was able to do the two combined, that to me was just such an accomplishment. To some people, it could be they got permission to do it and then that’s all they focused on was the dog, but no. I had my job I had to do. I’ve always gotten a distinguished rating in my performances my entire career, and it didn't change when I was training this service dog. “It was a challenge for sure. “After I had to turn back over the service dog I trained, it was really very difficult because the dog was with me for two years, even though I knew it was for a wonderful cause. I ended up going out and getting my own dog who I’ve trained to be a therapy dog, so now we do therapy visits with veterans, elderly, and others. ” Jean Wolfe, Program Executive for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series Program at NASA Headquarters, poses for a portrait with Bonnie, who was named for U.S. Air Force Reserve Major Bonnie Carroll, Ret., Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 at the Warrior Canine Connection in Boyds, MD. “Warrior Canine Connection enlists service members and veterans with combat stress in the critical mission of training service dogs for fellow Wounded Warriors.” Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

HRH Prince Frederik of Denmark visit and tour of NASA Ames Research Center. from Left to right Shown the with Ames Special Advisor to the Director John W. 'Jack' Boyd, HRH, and Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden.

Pilot Greg Johnson and Mission Specialist Mike Fincke of Space Shuttle Endeavour's final mission STS-134 come to Ames Research Center to share their experiences, answer questions and sign autographs during a afternoon with the staff. With John W. 'Jack' Boyd on right.

The 14 member 2009 class of NASA astronauts, Japan Aerospace Explortion Agency (JAXA) astronauts and Canadian Space Agency astronauts visit Ames Research Center. From left to right back row are Takuya Onishi (JAXA), Scott Tingle, Jeremy Hansen, Jeanette Epps, Jack Boyd (Ames), Serena Aunon, Kathleen (Kate) Rubins, David Saint-Jacques (CSA) Kimiya Yui (JAXA), Michael Hopkins, Gregory (Reid) Wiseman, Kjell Lundgren, Norishige Kanai (JAXA).

Director's Council, front row left to right, Lewis Braxton, Deputy Director of Ames, S. Pete Worden, Director of Ames, Steve Zornetzer, Associate Center Director. Back row left to right Paul Agnew, CFO, Jack Boyd, Sr. Advisor to the Center Director, Karen Bradford, Chief of Staff, Deb Feng, Deputy Director (Acting), Phil Fluegemann, Executive Officer for Deputy Director .

Scientists Ryan Boyd (left) and Vladislav Sevostianov (right) attend to the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) instrument on the exterior the DC-8 aircraft at Building 703 in Palmdale, CA.
The DC-8 aircraft is prepared for its last mission, ASIA-AQ (Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality), that will collect detailed air quality data over several locations in Asia to improve the understanding of local air quality in collaboration with local scientists, air quality agencies, and government partners

NASA's 50th Anniversay year. Panel discussion with four of NASA AMES's past center directors on how their tenure effected Ames and NASA. On the projects they pushed for and/or pushed forward and the culture of the center and the agency and how that worked for or against Ames, as well as major contributions of the time made by Ames Research Center. Panel L-R; Hans Mark, Sy Syvertson, Dale Compton, Scott Hubbard and Pete Worden, present director. (Past Directors served for periods from 1969 thru 2006) at a round table in the Boyd Room of N-200.

Annual Metrology and Calibration Working Group Face to Face meeting held at Langley Research Center; Front Row (L to R): Stacy Sigmon – LaRC, Brent Watling – JSC, Ralph Hickman – WFF, Kirk Foster – MSFC, Don Wilson – SSC, Greg Boyd – JSC, Perry King – KSC, Bobby Price – GSFC, Felicia Donnell – GSFC, Perry LaRosa – GRC. Second Row (L to R): Ken Mathews – KSC, Darrell Shoup – WSTF, Gary Kennedy – MSFC, Terry Fleet – GRC, Damon Flansburg – ARC, Salvatore Tomaselli - WFF, Bruce Farner - SSC, David Scott – JPL, Jim Wachter – KSC, Shawn Britton – LaRC.

Ames Women's Influence Network (WIN) Hidden Figures talk with "Computers" Carolyn Hofstetter and Carol Mead co-sponsored by the AAAG. Group photo Front Row left to right; Carolyn Hofstetter, Jack Boyd, Carol Mead Middle Row: Kathy Lee, Annette Randall, Trincella Lewis, Ann Mead (daughter to Carol Mead), Vanessa Kuroda, Netti Halcomb Roozeboom Back Row; Dr Barbara Miller, Dr Wendy Okolo, Denise Snow, Leedjia Svec, Erika Rodriquez, Rhonda Baker, Ray Gilstrap, Glenn Bugos

Dedication of the Clarence A. 'Sy' Syvertson Auditorium On July 15, 2011, Ames officiclly renamed its Main Aduitorium (N201) in memory of former Ames Center Director Clarence 'Sy' Syvertson. Syvertson served as Ames Center Director from 1977 to 1984 and passed away Sept 13, 2010. He began his 35-year career at Ames in 1948 and in addition to being Center Director, he also served as Ames' Director of Astronautics and Deputy Director. Syvertson was instrumental in remodeling the auditorium and it is entirely fitting that it be named in his honor. Seen here from left to right are: Syvertson's wife Joann; Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden ; his daughter Lynn and Jack Boyd, senior advisor to the center director. Mrs. JoAnn Syvertson looks a dedication plaque placed in honor of her husband.

NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program lead, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, answered questions during the briefing. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

S73-30856 (29 June 1973) --- John Boyd observes a bag with two ?brackish water? minnows known as ?Mummichog Minnows? which will be onboard Skylab 3 with astronauts Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma. The fish were added to the flight at the request of scientist-astronaut Dr. Owen K. Garriott, science pilot. Fifty eggs from the minnows will also be included in the bag. The objective of this experiment is to show what disorientation the fish will experience when exposed to weightlessness. Many fish have vestibular apparatus quite similar to man. Even though they live in an environment usually considered to resemble weightlessness, they do perceive a gravity vector. An aquarium of the minnows, caught off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina, is in the background. Photo credit: NASA

Dedication of the Clarence A. 'Sy' Syvertson Auditorium On July 15, 2011, Ames officiclly renamed its Main Aduitorium (N201) in memory of former Ames Center Director Clarence 'Sy' Syvertson. Syvertson served as Ames Center Director from 1977 to 1984 and passed away Sept 13, 2010. He began his 35-year career at Ames in 1948 and in addition to being Center Director, he also served as Ames' Director of Astronautics and Deputy Director. Syvertson was instrumental in remodeling the auditorium and it is entirely fitting that it be named in his honor. Seen here from left to right are: Syvertson's wife Joann; Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden ; his daughter Lynn and Jack Boyd, senior advisor to the center director.

A plaque presented to Harvey Allen in recognition of his outstanding solution of the reentry heating problem which has been indispensable to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (Manned Spacecraft Center, November 14, 1968) Plaque contains samples of tested materials and models of spacecraft.

On the site of Launch Complex 34, key participants sign a Memorandum of Agreement, formalizing cooperative efforts of NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and federal agencies in ground-water cleanup initiatives. Seated at the table, from left to right, are Timothy Oppelt, director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Heenan, assistant manager of environmental management, Savannah River Site, U.S. Department of Energy; Col. James Heald, Vice Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Air Force; Gerald Boyd, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy; James Fiore, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Environmental Restoration, Department of Energy; Brig. Gen. Randall R. Starbuck, Commander 45th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force; Roy Bridges Jr., director of John F. Kennedy Space Center; Walter Kovalick Jr., Ph.D., director, Technology Innovation Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the agencies have formed a consortium and are participating in a comparative study of three innovative techniques to be used in cleaning a contaminated area of Launch Complex 34. The study will be used to help improve groundwater cleanup processes nationally

NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are moderator Claire Saravia, NASA Communications; Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director, NASA Headquarters; George Ricker, TESS principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program lead, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; Stephen Rinehart, TESS Project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; and Diana Dragomir, NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.

On the site of Launch Complex 34, key participants sign a Memorandum of Agreement, formalizing cooperative efforts of NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and federal agencies in ground-water cleanup initiatives. Seated from left to right are Timothy Oppelt, director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Heenan, assistant manager of environmental management, Savannah River Site, U.S. Department of Energy; Col. James Heald, Vice Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Air Force; Gerald Boyd, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy; James Fiore, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Environmental Restoration, Department of Energy; Brig. Gen. Randall R. Starbuck, Commander 45th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force; Roy Bridges Jr., director of John F. Kennedy Space Center; Walter Kovalick Jr., Ph.D., director, Technology Innovation Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the agencies have formed a consortium and are participating in a comparative study of three innovative techniques to be used in cleaning a contaminated area of Launch Complex 34. The study will be used to help improve groundwater cleanup processes nationally

Walter W. Kovalick Jr., Ph.D., director of Technology Innovation Office for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, addresses representatives from Kennedy Space Center, the 45th Space Wing, and various federal environmental agencies gathered to attend a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing, taking place at the site of Launch Complex 34. The MOA formalizes the cooperative efforts of the federal agencies in ground-water cleanup initiatives. NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the agencies have formed a consortium and are participating in a comparative study of three innovative techniques to be used in cleaning a contaminated area of Launch Complex 34. The study will be used to help improve groundwater cleanup processes nationally. Other attendees included Timothy Oppelt, director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Heenan, assistant manager of environmental management, Savannah River Site, U.S. Department of Energy; Col. James Heald, Vice Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Air Force; Gerald Boyd, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy; James Fiore, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Environmental Restoration, Department of Energy; Brig. Gen. Randall R. Starbuck, Commander 45th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force; and Roy Bridges Jr., director of John F. Kennedy Space Center

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot, center, tours the Thermal Protection System Facility, or TPSF, during a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are Kennedy Director Bob Cabana, Lightfoot, and Martin Boyd, TPSF manager with Jacobs Technologies, briefing his guests on the production of TPS tile for NASA's new Orion spacecraft. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers. It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our technology development activities in high-powered solar electric propulsion and takes advantage of our hard work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, helping to keep NASA on target to reach the President's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. Photo credit: NASA_Jim Grossmann

Key participants in the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement, formalizing cooperative efforts of NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and federal agencies in ground-water cleanup initiatives, gather on top of the block house at Launch Complex 34. Motioning at right is Skip Chamberlain, program manager, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy. Others on the tour include Timothy Oppelt, director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Heenan, assistant manager of environmental management, Savannah River Site, U.S. Department of Energy; Col. James Heald, Vice Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Air Force; Gerald Boyd, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy; James Fiore, acting deputy assistant secretary, Office of Environmental Restoration, Department of Energy; Brig. Gen. Randall R. Starbuck, Commander 45th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force; Roy Bridges Jr., director of John F. Kennedy Space Center; Walter Kovalick Jr., Ph.D., director, Technology Innovation Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the agencies have formed a consortium and are participating in a comparative study of three innovative techniques to be used in cleaning a contaminated area of Launch Complex 34. The study will be used to help improve groundwater cleanup processes nationally

NASA and science investigators from MIT participate in a science briefing for the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Press Site auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are moderator Claire Saravia, NASA Communications; Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director, NASA Headquarters; George Ricker, TESS principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Padi Boyd, TESS Guest Investigator Program lead, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; Stephen Rinehart, TESS Project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; and Diana Dragomir, NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TESS is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 16.