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Dec 2000
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American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #137.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.725
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The Solar System Ambassadors Program is a public outreach program designed to work with motivated volunteers across the nation. Those volunteers organize and conduct public events that communicate exciting discoveries and plans in Solar System research, exploration and technology through non-traditional forums, e.g. community service clubs, libraries, museums, planetariums, ``star parties," mall displays, etc. In 2001, 200 Ambassadors from almost all 50 states bring the excitement of space to the public. Ambassadors are space enthusiasts, K-12 in-service educators, retirees, community college teachers, and other members of the general public interested in providing greater service and inspiration to the community at large. Last year, Ambassadors conducted approximately 600 events that directly reached more than one-half million people in communities across the United States. The Solar System Ambassadors Program is sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a lead research and development center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Participating JPL projects include Cassini, Galileo, STARDUST, Outer Planets mission, Solar Probe, Genesis, Ulysses, Voyager, Mars missions, Discovery missions NEAR-Shoemaker and Deep Impact, and the Deep Space Network. Each Ambassador participates in on-line (web-based) training sessions that provide interaction with NASA scientists, engineers and project team members. As such, each Ambassador's experience with the space program becomes personalized. Training sessions provide Ambassadors with general background on each mission and educate concerning specific mission milestones, such as launches, planetary flybys, first image returns, arrivals, and ongoing key discoveries. Additionally, projects provide videos, slide sets, booklets, pamphlets, posters, postcards, lithographs, on-line materials, resource links and information. Integrating nation-wide volunteers in a public-engagement program helps optimize project funding set aside for education and outreach purposes. At the same time, members of communities across the country become an extended part of each mission's team and an important interface between the space exploration community and the general public at large.
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