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Administrator Bolden Joins Sen. Mikulski at Goddard

NASA Administrator with Sen. Barbara Mikulski
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, NASA Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese, center, and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, right, talk to the press during a tour of NASA Goddard facilitites on Oct. 22, 2013. Bolden’s visit to Goddard was the first by the administrator to a NASA field center following the government shutdown that halte

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, NASA Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese, center, and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, right, talk to the press during a tour of NASA Goddard facilitites on Oct. 22, 2013. Bolden’s visit to Goddard was the first by the administrator to a NASA field center following the government shutdown that halted most of the space agency’s activities from Oct. 1 -16, 2013.

They are standing outside a cleanroom for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) mission. MMS, tentatively set to launch in October 2014, is a series of four satellites that will investigate how the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect, explosively transferring energy from one to the other in a process that is important at the Sun, other planets, and everywhere in the universe, known as magnetic reconnection.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Bill Hrybyk