{"id":6209,"date":"2014-11-17T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:42:46","slug":"beyond-earth-orbit-with-the-orion-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Earth Orbit with the Orion Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6212\" title=\"Joe\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe1-150x122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Orion team invites\u00a0museums, schools, and\u00a0home school families to participate in an interactive webcast featuring Lockheed Martin engineer Joe LeBlanc.\u00a0 You may view the webcast as an individual at your personal computer or set up audio visual equipment in your museum or school for a large group to participate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DATE: \u00a0Thursday, November 20, 2014<\/p>\n<p>TIME: \u00a01:00\u00a0p.m. PST (4:00 p.m. EST)<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: Museums, Educators and Students<\/p>\n<p>WEBCAST LINK:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-jsc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-jsc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio only:\u00a0<a href=\"tel:1-888-323-4924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-888-323-4924<\/a>, passcode museum<\/p>\n<p>EMAIL QUESTIONS TO:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jsc-orion-outreach@mail.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jsc-orion-outreach@mail.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this interactive webcast, Joe will broadcast live from the Orion mock-up at the Johnson Space Center\u2019s Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility.\u00a0 He will share NASA\u2019s efforts in Deep Space Exploration and the importance of Orion\u2019s first flight.\u00a0 Joe will take questions from a live audience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as from webcast viewers from around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor building Orion, NASA\u2019s first spacecraft designed for long-duration, human-rated deep space exploration.\u00a0 Orion will enable new missions to interplanetary destinations beyond low Earth orbit, such as asteroids, the Moon and eventually Mars.\u00a0 The Orion spacecraft is scheduled for its first test flight on\u00a0December 4, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>You may submit questions for Joe before and during the event at the following email address:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jsc-orion-outreach@mail.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jsc-orion-outreach@mail.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Speaker:<\/span> Joe LeBlanc started on the Orion Project under the Constellation Program in March of 2006 as the Systems Integration Lead for Structures, Mechanisms, &amp; Pyrotechnics (Ordnance). From August of 2008-2013, he transitioned into the Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) Lead.\u00a0\u00a0 Joe is currently the European Service Module Integration Project Lead for Exploration Mission One and Two (EM-1 &amp; EM-2) and the Payload Manager for Exploration Flight Test One (EFT-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orion team invites\u00a0museums, schools, and\u00a0home school families to participate in an interactive webcast featuring Lockheed Martin engineer Joe LeBlanc.\u00a0 You may view the webcast as an individual at your personal computer or set up audio visual equipment in your museum or school for a large group to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}