Solar System Ambassadors
Solar System Ambassadors mission logo
The Solar System Ambassadors Program is a public outreach program of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nearly 500 volunteers in all 50 states as well as Washington DC and Puerto Rico share information about exploration missions and recent discoveries to their local communities.[1][2]The program is an extension of the original Galileo Ambassadors program created to share information about the Galileo mission.[1]
Ambassadors offer outreach programming free of charge at a variety of venues ranging from classrooms, to talks at museums and planetariums to television.[3]
See also
- Solar System Educators
- NASA Tweetup
References
- 1 2 "Volunteers Bringing the Solar System to the Public". JPL. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ↑ "A passion as infinite as the universe". The Commercial Appeal. December 6, 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ↑ "Solar System Ambassador participates in launch tweetup". WRAL.
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