NASA Update

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe hosts an edition of NASA Update at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 26. He'll address the agency regarding the day's release of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's findings.

Employees wishing to view and participate in this update may do so from the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium.

Columbia Accident Investigation Board Will Release Final Report on August 26, 2003

ARLINGTON, VA - The Columbia Accident Investigation Board will hold a press briefing to discuss its final report on the cause of the February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle accident on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11 a.m. EDT at the National Transportation Safety Board boardroom at 429 L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C.

Board Chairman retired Admiral Harold W. "Hal" Gehman Jr. and other board members will review the contents of the report and will answer questions from the press. The briefing is open to credentialed media only.

The report also will be posted to the CAIB website, www.caib.us, at 10 a.m. that morning. The 11 a.m. press briefing will be webcast from the same website.

Server Outage 8/23/03

The Goddard Space Flight Center (list site here) will be unavailable on Saturday, August 23rd 2003, from 9:00 am through 4:00 pm. ODIN will continue to upgrade the network infrastructure of Building 18 at Goddard. During this time frame there will be intermittent network connectivity inside and outside of the building, as Engineer's install network switches.

Please direct all questions or concerns to the ADB Support Desk at 301-286-9508 or adb-support@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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GEWA Newsletter

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13th Annual Fall Crafts Fair -- Register Today!

GEWA's Fall Crafts Fair will be held on October 15 from 10 a.m. til 2 p.m. in the Bldg. 8 Auditorium. Registration is $15 per space (10'x10' area with one 3'x5' table + 2 chairs) and is open to all GSFC government and contractor employees, retirees, family members and friends. Items must be handmade. Registration forms and checks are due by COB October 3. Contact Catherine Simkins (csimkins@pop400.gsfc.nasa.gov) for an electronic copy of the registration form.

Call for Papers - 6th MAPLD International Conference

Abstracts are being accepted for the 6th annual Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference. Programmable devices, technologies and related aspects of digital engineering will comprise the major emphasis of this conference.

This year, there will be a special emphasis on papers with the following themes:

• Reliability of Hardware and Designs; Fault Tolerance
• Reconfigurable/Adaptive Computing Systems
• Long-term Space Missions: > 15 Years
• Hardware and Software: The line is blurring
• Radiation Hardening by Design
• Digital Signal Processing with Programmable Devices
• Design Security
• "War Stories" and Lessons Learned

The event will occur on September 9-11, 2003 at the Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C.

For more info, visit: http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon03/admin/mapldcon03_cfp.html

NASA Day at Six Flags (Largo)

Tickets are on sale now at the GEWA Store for this special offer to all Goddard employees (government and contractor), retirees, and their families: All-day park admission on Sunday, August 31, and an all-you-can-eat classic picnic lunch (1:30-3:30 p.m.) of fried chicken, hot dogs, pasta salad, tossed salad, plus sodas/iced tea and ice cream. BUY YOUR TICKETS EARLY -- Cost until August 19: $30 (ages 4 & up). Prices go up $3/ticket on August 20. FREE ages 3 & under. For season pass holders, meal cost is $12. Parking costs $6/vehicle.