5th Annual

Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Thursday, April 27, 2000

Schedule of Events

Below is our schedule of confirmed NASA women who will be participating in our day's activities. As you can imagine many of our NASA women have schedules that change on a daily basis due to the variable nature of their work. We have attempted to finalize our schedule but will be adding some additional intriguing and captivating high-profile women as we confirm their schedules. The fact that we have the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission scheduled for an April 24 launch adds to the volatility of these schedules!

Answer one of three questions based on our featured mentors who work in Public Affairs at Johnson Space Center. It's fun and you have the opportunity to win COOL NASA prizes!

Registration is not necessary for the Forum and you may join in at any time to post questions or read responses. The women listed below will take questions specific to them or you may post a general question that any of the mentors can answer. As these women will be logging into the room at various times throughout the day to address questions, they will do their best to get to as many questions as their time allows.
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Karen Crandell, High Speed Research Business Officer / Lewis Research Office - Karen works on projects that can potentially alter the way we will travel in the future. She works with a wide variety of people, from research scientists and engineers to financial managers and administrators and interfaces with industry and other NASA centers. She deals with project management and business issues that include finance, scheduling, accounting, and configuration control.

Janis Davis-Street Aerospace Engineer / Johnson Space Center - Janis is a nutritionist and works in the life sciences. She is part of a team whose job is determining the nutritional requirements for space flight, that is, finding out what foods and nutrients are important for the astronauts as they venture into space. Nutrition is very important in keeping us healthy here on Earth, and likewise, in space.

Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, Ph.D, Aerospace Engineer / Goddard Space Flight Center - Following an extremely interesting and inspirational educational journey, Aprille now works as an engineer on the Map-Microwave Anisotropy Probe which is part of a MIDEX project. Her work has involved various missions and satellite projects where she has developed or utilized dynamic modeling simulation programs for spacecraft.

Dian Hardison, Engineer, specializing in Materials Science / Kennedy Space Center - Dian is a NASA engineer at Kennedy Space Center, with a degree in Materials Science, a cross between chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. The main use for this in the space program is to ensure materials compatibility between the ground support equipment and all the explosive, corrosive, toxic, and flammable materials that are routinely handled at the Kennedy Space Center.

Dionne Jackson, Analytical Chemist / Kennedy Space Center - Dionne works in the Materials Science Laboratory which evaluates materials and processes associated with flight hardware and ground support equipment. She is responsible for testing and identifying metal alloys. Participation cancelled do to STS-101 launch slip.

Diane McMahon Space Station Payload Integration Manager / Johnson Space Center - Diane is a Space Station Payload Integration Manager. Her job is to get payloads stowed on the shuttle and then transferred and integrated onto the ISS (International Space Station) to do science experiment/research work. Her current payloads include two protein crystal growth experiments, the Window Observation Research Facility, the Biological Research Project, and a group of payloads they are trying to get on-orbit early in the space station assembly sequence.

Stacey Morrison, Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Space and Life Sciences Directorate / Johnson Space Center - Stacey is in charge of all the computers, hardware and software for the directorate. This includes making sure they are Y2K compliant (by the way, they had no Y2K problems), making sure that they are secure and not open to hackers. She aIso manages a team of software programmers that writes programs the directorate needs to conduct business.

Carol Russo , Director of Aeronautics / Glenn Research Center - Dr. Russo is responsible for programs that develop advanced propulsion technologies for safer, cleaner, quieter, and higher performance jet engines. Her work involves partnerships with U.S. industry, academia, and other Government agencies.

Registration is necessary for all QuestChats. Please follow the specific links for each time slot. If you attempt to register for a chat and it is filled, you may either observe or register for another one.

Date	Time	Event Type	Grade Level	Event	Description
Thursday, April 27, 2000	6 AM - 3 PM Pacific, 8 AM - 5 PM Central, 9 AM - 6 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestForum with Women of NASA	In celebration of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, women from different NASA centers and career fields will be online at various times of the day to answer your questions. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	6 AM - 7 AM Pacific / 8 AM - 9 AM Central / 9 AM - 10 AM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Linda Kennedy and Doug Peterson Enter our contest about Doug and Linda's work to win cool NASA prizes!	Linda Kennedy works within the public affairs division at Johnson Space Center. She is responsible for coordinating astronaut public appearances, tours, and post launch events. This chat will be co-hosted by Doug Peterson who also works in the Public Affairs office. While Linda's work involves astronaut bookings away from Johnson Space Center, Doug's work is centered on public affairs at Johnson, which includes the Astronaut Office and Aircraft Operations Division. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	7 AM - 8 AM Pacific / 9 AM - 10 AM Central / 10 AM - 11 AM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Marta Bohn Meyer	Throughout her career, Marta Bohn-Meyer has been involved in different areas involving aeronautics and aerospace. In 1991, Marta became the first female crewmember assigned to the SR-71 aircraft. Outside of the workplace, Marta enjoys building and flying aerobatic airplanes. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	8 AM - 9 AM Pacific / 10 AM - 11 AM Central / 11 AM - NOON Eastern		all	Women of NASAVirtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day Online Event with Astronaut Shannon Lucid	In recognition of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Astronaut Shannon Lucid will be online to discuss her career as an astronaut, researcher, and in aeronautics. Video Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	9 AM - 10 AM Pacific / 11 AM - NOON Central / NOON - 1 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Lisa Malone	Lisa Malone is responsible for distributing information about NASA's different programs to worldwide news media organizations. This includes managing media activities surrounding launches, landings, astronaut activities and other high profile events. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	10 AM - 11 AM Pacific / NOON - 1 PM Central / 1 PM - 2 PM Eastern		all	Space Team Online Webcast with Astronaut Sam Durrance	Astronaut Sam Durrance will be describing those last hours before launch (something he has been through twice!) In honor of this special day, Sam's daughter, Susan, will join him live for this event! Video archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	11 AM - 12 PM Pacific / 1 PM - 2 PM Central / 2 PM - 3 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Linda Bangert	Linda Bangert's specialty is understanding the effects of integrating the propulsion system with the aircraft. Until recently, she worked on military fighter and attack airplanes in the "transonic" speed range. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	12 PM - 1 PM Pacific / 2 PM - 3 PM Central / 3 PM - 4 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Astronaut Eileen Collins and Peggy Wilhide	Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman ever selected to be a space shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a space shuttle. Join us as Commander Collins discusses her exciting career as a pilot and NASA astronaut. Archive Special appearance during the second half of this chat by Peggy Wilhide - Director of NASA Public Affairs. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	1 PM - 2 PM Pacific / 3 PM - 4 PM Central / 4 PM - 5 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Rose Grymes	Rose Grymes Rose Grymes is currently the Assistant Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) in the Office of the Director. She is responsible for assisting the director in planning, advocating, implementing, controlling, reviewing, and reporting NAI science, technical objectives, and milestones. Archive
Thursday, April 27, 2000	2 PM - 3 PM Pacific / 4 PM - 5 PM Central / 5 PM - 6 PM Eastern		all	Women of NASA Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day QuestChat with Rosaly Lopes-Gautier	Rosaly Lopes-Gautier has been studying Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, since 1996. She is responsible for planning all of the observations of Io, and uses the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) to take and study images of the moon's surface. Archive