No tours in 2002. NASA, NSA, and APL tours will return in 2003!
2002 MAPLD International Conference Tours
Kossiakoff Conference Center
The Johns Hopkins University- Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099
September 10-12, 2002
We will have a bus that will take you on the NASA and NSA tours. You may, of course, visit the Cryptologic Museum on your own. Seats are limited and reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. You may make reservations for both yourself and your family members and guests. Reservations can be made by e-mailing patricia.prettyman@jhuapl.edu.
To go on the NASA tour and the bus, you must be properly cleared, if you are not a US citizen. To obtain clearance, you should make a tour reservation no later than August 23, 2002. Reservations made after August 23, 2002, may not be processed in time.
Upon arrival at the Conference site, please check-in and verify your spot on the bus.
Tour itinerary:
2:00 pm - Bus leaves APL
2:15 pm - National Cryptologic Museum (approx. 45 minutes)
3:00 pm - Bus leaves for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
3:15 pm - NASA GSFC Tour (approx. 90 minutes)
5:15 pm - Bus returns to APL
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Building 3: Hubble Space Telescope Control Center - The operational nerve center of the Hubble Space Telescope. Goddard
manages the telescope operations and observations with one of the largest and most complex ground command centers ever developed.
Building 7/10: Spacecraft Test and Integration Facility - Goddard's unique spacecraft integration and environmental test facilities
including: clean rooms; thermal-vacuum facilities; vibration and acoustic test facilities, structural static test and acceleration test facilities. Plus a full scale space shuttle cargo bay.
Building 29: Spacecraft Systems Development/Integration Facility - This is an 86,000 square foot facility designed to provide
support for the integration and testing of spacecraft hardware. This facility is unique in the fact that it contains a 1.3 million cubic foot
horizontal laminar flow clean room and is the largest class 10,000 clean room of its kind in the free world.
Building 28: Scientific Visualization Studio - This studio is studying the benefits of applying virtual reality technologies to scientific
visualization. Our goal is to improve the investigatory capabilities of researchers by utilizing the increased sensory stimulation and
anthropomorphic (human-like) aspects of virtual reality technologies.
The National Cryptologic Museum provides a "peek behind the curtain" at a once-secret world -- the exploitation of enemy cryptology and the protection of American communications. These complementary activities have been of critical importance in both peace and war since the foundation of our nation, but knowledge about them has in the past been limited to a privileged few.
Three different tours will be available, each tour being 40 minutes in length.
Military - Combat Systems Evaluation Laboratory - Available to US Citizens
only. Foreign Nationals wishing to attend this tour should apply for access
ahead of time by contacting Ann.Darrin@jhuapl.edu.Aerospace - Satellite Fabrication and Test Facilities; Space Department Facilities.
Microelectronics: Advanced Microelectronics Miniaturization Labs Electronic Services Group.
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