(MAPLD Conference)
Tours of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be given on Monday, September 14. Two tours are schedule, one at 2:30 p.m. and the other at 4:00 p.m. All tours will originate from the NASA GSFC Vistor's Center, where registration is being held. Also, there is a museam and gift shop located there. Please contact Rich Katz if you need more tour information and if you plan to attend a tour, so that appropriate transportion can be arranged. Each tour will last about one hour.
The tour descriptions are as follows:
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.
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