A principal mission of NASA is "to advance and communicate scientific knowledge... ." The exceptional performance of SSL in the latter part of this mission is manifested in several ways.
The sharing of scientific knowledge with the research community at large is demonstrated through the publication of more than 450 scientific papers - the second highest for SSL - in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and articles.
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SSL civil service employees have a strong heritage of broadly disseminating their results in refereed publications, conferences, books, and other media. |
Additionally, SSL scientists serve their scientific disciplines and NASA programs by participating in Spacelab mission science activities, conference organizing committees, and science planning councils. Our efforts to share many of our scientific results with audiences beyond the professional community are reflected in the large number and frequency of visitors to the laboratory, or outreach activities, including:
Authors: Dr. John Horack,
Dave Dooling
Curator: Linda Porter
NASA Official: Dr. Gregory
S. Wilson, Director
Last updated March 5, 1997