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2007 NASA Balloon Community Workshop

The NASA Balloon Program in conjunction with the NASA Scientific Ballooning Roadmap Team held a community wide workshop in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007.

Workshop Goals :
To update the existing NASA Scientific Balloon Roadmap Report (2005), and receive inputs from different aspects of the Scientific Balloon Community.

Useful Links :
NASA Science Plan

Balloon Community Workshop Program

8:30-8:45	Welcome and Introduction	Martin Israel (Washington University)
8:45-9:00	Report by NASA Headquarters	Vernon Jones (NASA Headquarters)
9:00-9:15	Report by NASA Balloon Program Office	David Pierce (NASA WFF)
9:15-9:30	Report by NSF/Polar Programs	Vladimir Papitashvili (NSF OPP)
9:30-10:00	Report from SwRI LCANS Workshop	Eliot Young (SwRI)
10:00-10:30	Facility for flying several small instruments	Mark Christl (NASA MSFC)
10:35-11:00	Airships	Steve Smith (SwRI)
11:00-11:15	Virtual Cosmic-Ray Observatory	John Cooper (NASA GSFC)
11:15-11:30	CosmoCam - a hitchhiker for E/PO	Scott Murphy (CosmoCam)
12:10-12:30	Exo-Planet Observations from Balloons	Wes Traub (JPL)
12:30-1:00	CMB Task Force Report	Andrew Lange (CalTech)
1:00-1:30	Planetary Applications using Balloons	Ralph Lorenz (APL)
1:30-2:00	Earth Science	Marty Mlynczak (NASA LaRC)
2:00-2:30	Potential Exploration Applications	Chris Moore (NASA Headquarters)
2:30-2:45	SUNRISE Mission Overview	Peter Barthol (DLR)
2:30-2:45	Balloon Auroral Observations	Xiaoyan Zhou (JPL)
2:45-3:00	BARREL Mission Overview	Robyn Millan (Dartmouth College)
3:00-3:15	UV-Visible Missions using LDB's	Charles Joseph (Rutgers University)
3:15-3:30	Science Enabled by HAA	Joseph Davila (NASA GSFC)
3:30-4:30	Community Input & Open Discussion
4:30	Adjourn