May 5, 2011

Cathy Weselby / Nicholas A. Veronico
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-4789 / 650-604-4589
cathy.weselby@nasa.gov / nveronico@sofia.usra.edu

Beth Hagenauer
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
661-276-7960
beth.hagenauer-1@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 11-12

NASA TO HOST VIDEO CHAT SHOWCASING SOFIA SCIENCE

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA invites the public to join an online 
video chat about viewing the infrared universe with the Stratospheric 
Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Project Scientist Pamela 
Marcum will take questions for approximately one hour beginning at 1 
p.m. EDT / 10 a.m. PDT Thursday, May 12.

Participants in the live video chat will join a conversation with 
Marcum about SOFIA’s first science flights, targets of opportunity, 
and plans for future flights. Marcum is based at NASA's Ames Research 
Center in Moffett Field, Calif. An expert on galaxy evolution, she 
worked on the first extensive ultraviolet imaging of nearby galaxies. 
She previously served as a program scientist for NASA’s Wide-field 
Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Kepler missions.

For more information on the video chat, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/sofia_chat.html

To participate in the video web chat on May 12, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-arc

SOFIA is NASA’s next generation airborne observatory and is a joint 
venture of NASA and the German Aerospace Center. NASA's Ames manages 
the SOFIA science and mission operations in cooperation with the 
Universities Space Research Association headquartered in Columbia, 
Md., and the German SOFIA Institute at the University of Stuttgart, 
Germany. SOFIA is based and managed at NASA’s Dryden Aircraft 
Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.

For more information about the SOFIA Mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/SOFIA

	
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