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Brazilian Science, Space Leaders Visit NASA

Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members in Huntsville, Alabama.
Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members at the Huntsville Operations Support Center during their visit to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members at the Huntsville Operations Support Center during their visit to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, from Aug. 15-16. Brazil was the first Latin American country to sign the Artemis Accords, joining the United States and a growing number of nations committed to safe, responsible, and transparent behavior in space, and a common interest in preserving and protecting the outer space environment to ensure a safe and sustainable future in space for all. The Brazilian Space Agency is collaborating with Marshall on an upcoming CubeSat mission called the Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task, or SPORT, that will study effects of space weather on Earth’s upper atmosphere. The visit included discussions with Marshall leaders about the space agencies’ successful partnership for SPORT and potential future collaborations in support of the Artemis program.

(Front row) SPORT Project Scientist Linda Krause, Marshall, left; Brazilian Space Agency President Carlos Augusto Teixeira de Moura; SPORT Mission Manager Joe Casas, Marshall; Exploration & Transportation Development Office Manager Rajiv Doreswamy, Marshall; Artemis Coordinator Rodrigo Leonardi, Brazilian Space Agency; SPORT Project Manager Luis Eduardo Vergueiro Loues da Costa, Technological Aeronautics Institute, Brazil; Counselor Renato José Stancato de Souza, Brazilian Embassy in Washington; Science Research & Projects Office Deputy Manager Nicole Pelfrey, Marshall; SPORT Project Manager Shelia Nash-Stevenson, Marshall, right.

(Back row) Lt. Gen. Ricardo Cesar Mangrich, Special Advisor to the Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Planetary Scientist Heidi Haviland, Marshall; Science Research & Projects Office Manager Walt Petersen; International Program Specialist Youshay Rizvi, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Heliophysics and Planetary Science Branch Chief David McKenzie, Marshall; Strategic Analyst Michael Smith, Marshall; Science Division Deputy Director Justin Tilman, NASA Headquarters, right.