2000 MAPLD International Conference Tours
Kossiakoff Conference Center
The Johns Hopkins Univerisity- Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099
September 26-28, 2000
We will have a bus that will take you on the NASA and NSA tours. You may, of course, visit the Cryptologic Museum on your own. To go on the NASA tour and the bus, you must be from the US. Next year we shall add procedures to allow in everyone, it's a more complicated procedure.
At check-in, please tell the Conference personnel that you will be going on the bus. They will relay this information to NASA security so you can be admitted to the Goddard Space Flight Center, a federal facility. Signup up for the tours will be on a first-come, first-served basis and there is a NASA 28-passenger bus. It is best if you e-mail your reservation (family members and guests are welcome) to go on the tour to maplug@pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov early. This will minimize delays, as the information can be sent to NASA early.
Tour itenerary:
- Fax names to Bill Braun, x1716
Bus leaves APL/Kossiakoff Conference Center @ 2:00 pm
Bus arrives at NSA, National Cryptologic Museum @ 2:15 pm
Bus leaves NSA @ 2:45 pm
Bus arrives NASA @ 3:00 pm
Tour guide boards bus at gate
Attendees are badged
Tour lasts 1 1/2 hours, under direction of PAO supplied tour guide
Bus leaves NASA at 4:30 pm
Bus returns to APL at 5:00 pm
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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.
The National Cryptologic Museum provides a "peek behind the curtain" at a once-secret world -- the exploitation of enemy cryptology and the protection of American communications. These complementary activities have been of critical importance in both peace and war since the foundation of our nation, but knowledge about them has in the past been limited to a privileged few.
Three different tours will be available, each tour being 40 minutes in length.
Military - Combat Systems Evaluation Laboratory - Available to US Citizens
only. Foreign Nationals wishing to attend this tour should apply for access
ahead of time by contacting Ann.Darrin@jhuapl.edu.Aerospace - Satellite Fabrication and Test Facilities; Space Department Facilities.
Microelectronics: Advanced Microelectronics Miniaturization Labs Electronic Services Group.
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