NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The 2009 Peninsula Day of Caring is Friday, Sept. 11. Sign up to volunteer by Aug. 14!

Fun and learning were had by all Friday at NASA Langley Research Center’s "Take Our Children to Work Day" event held at the Reid Center.

Sam Katzoff's career began during the Great Depression; his legacy includes setting the standard for technical reporting at NASA.

The spirit of volunteerism is a marriage of two periods in Walt Baskin's life. One provided material for the show, the other showed a sense of reward that comes from helping the children that see it.<...

Karen Steele and her husband, Bill Pardue, prefer to be "doers" and not just "sayers." They have made themselves living examples for years by helping just about anywhere their help was needed.

If it's Thursday, then John Hefner is at the Lackey Free Family Medicine Clinic in Yorktown.

"I'm the bouncer," he says, laughing from behind his desk in Building 1244.

In fact...