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December 13, 2002

NASA Administrator Introduces One NASA

Mr. O'keefe on screen of televised address.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe addressed all NASA employees earlier this week on how NASA is concentrating on becoming one agency, building on each Center's uniqueness to yield outstanding results. The Administrator gave a number of examples of the One NASA initiative, such as the need to implement ways to facilitate the transfer of information for real time usage. In addition, Mr. O'Keefe brought attention to the accomplishments of several One NASA efforts that will affect all employees in a positive way, such as the Integrated Financial Management Program, the new unified NASA email address and the Freedom to Manage Task Force, which has brought about several changes. Mr. O'Keefe ended his discussion by noting that NASA needs to stay flexible and available for change and then took questions from NASA Centers.

For more information on One NASA, visit http://www.onenasa.nasa.gov

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NASA 's Mission:
*To understand and protect our home planet
*To explore the Universe and search for life
*To inspire the next generation of explorers
…as only NASA can

For a further details of the NASA mission, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/bios/vision.html

NASA's Newest Communications Satellite Safely Reaches Geo Orbit

IceSat Spacecraft Set to Launch on December 19

Goddard, First Stop For Associate Administrator

IV&V Facility Educational Outreach to Fairmont State College and West Virginia University

Safety Alerts

In observance and in celebration of reaching a century of flight in 2003, Goddard News will feature historical NASA flight tidbits.

This week in history: This Week in History: Gemini 6A was scheduled to launch on December 12, 1965, but the launch was aborted one second after engine ignition because of a electrical umbilical separating prematurely. This was the first time an astronaut mission was aborted after ignition start. The mission launched successfully on 15 December and was the fifth crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series, having been launched after Gemini 7, with the intent of making rendezvous with Gemini 7 in Earth orbit. The mission priorities were to demonstrate on-time launch procedures, closed-loop rendezvous capabilities, and stationkeeping techniques with Gemini 7. Other objectives were to evaluate the spacecraft reentry guidance capabilities, and conduct spacecraft systems tests and four experiments.
For more on the Gemini program, go to: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/
MasterCatalog?sc=1965-104A