Minutes of Senior Staff and Center Directors’ Meeting January 1, 2000

The following documents the discussions addressed at the Senior Staff and

Center Directors’ Meeting on January 10, 2000.  Mr. Goldin did not attend

the meeting.  Action assignments have been placed in brackets [ ] for easy

identification.

1.  AA Reports

B/Holz:  Mr. Holz reported that the Chief Financial Officer’s staff will be

on a retreat in Hagerstown, MD, later this week.  
S/Weiler:  Dr. Weiler reported that the Hubble Space Telescope is back in

business and doing well.
P/Wilhide:  Ms. Wilhide reported that Eileen Collins rang the bell at the

New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, January 4, 2000, and that the stock

market went up.
AE/Hudkins:  Mr. Hudkins reported that the Office of the Chief Engineer

coordinated a meeting with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc., assigned by the DOD

to access the space industrial base.  The Booz-Allen team is led by General

Moorman and Jimmy Hill.  Each Enterprise presented its activities, and NASA

has requested to participate in the final briefing scheduled for late

February.   
U/Nicogossian:  Dr. Nicogossian reported on the following:  1) The Task

Group to Review Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Space Station

Research, under the auspices of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics

and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council, will release

the study, “Institutional Arrangements for Space Station Research,” at 5

p.m. on January 11, 2000.  The Task Group, chaired by Dr. Cornelius J.

Pings who is retired from the American Association of Universities,

consisted of 13 members plus 1 ex officio member from academia, industry,

and Government research and engineering organizations.  The Task Group was

organized in response to a request from management of the International

Space Station research and held three meetings over the course of the

study, beginning in May 1999 in Houston, TX, and two follow-on meetings in

Washington, DC.  2) Dr. David Satcher, Assistant Secretary for Health and

Surgeon General of the United States, will be the keynote speaker at the

Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications’ Sixth NASA

Seminar Series on “Global Trends of Emerging Infectious and Non-Infectious

Diseases.”  The presentation, broadcast to all Centers and internationally,

will be in the ViTS Room, CD-61, on Friday, January 14, 2000, from 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m.  All Headquarters OIC’s have been personally invited and asked to

RSVP, due to limited seating space.
2.  AI/Dr. Mulville

Dr. Mulville reported on the following:  1) Weekly health and safety

topic-Health Vulnerability Assessment-was sent out on e-mail 10 days ago.

The main message is that we as Senior Managers need to ensure that we have

a good understanding of the health risks present at our Centers, and we

need to have plans in place to deal with those risks.  The writeup has some

suggested questions for Senior Managers to ask as part of this assessment.

2) Twenty-five years ago this week, on January 14, 1975, Apollo-Soyuz Test

Project members, Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton, and Vance D. Brand,

participated in a 9-hour exercise at KSC to test the Apollo spacecraft’s

internal systems, Earth-landing systems, and instrument packages.        
3. Center Reports

DFRC/Petersen:  Mr. Petersen reported that Mr. Goldin will be visiting the

Center later today.  
GRC/Barna:  Mr. Barna reported that four Ohio Northern University (ONU)

students, with GRC’s Robert Button as their mentor, have been awarded first

prize in the 1999 Myron Zucker National Student Design Contest for their

paper “Peak Power Tracker for NASA’s Series Connected Boost Regulator.”

The students, as well as ONU’s Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department, received cash honoraria and certificates and have been invited

to attend the national Industry Applications Society annual meeting in

Phoenix, Arizona, to be recognized for their achievements and to present

their paper.  This signifies the important partnership between NASA

engineers and university students.
JSC/Abbey:  Mr. Abbey reported on the following:  1) The International

Space Station is performing well in orbit.  2) The STS-103 Space

Shuttle mission crew debriefings  are complete.  3) A Flight Readiness

Review for the next mission, STS-99, is scheduled for next Tuesday, January

18. 
LaRC/Creedon:  Dr. Creedon reported that Mr. Goldin visited the Center on

Friday, January 7, with a congressional delegation.  Mr. Goldin’s speech

was very well received.          
NOTE:  ACTION ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE TRANSMITTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER AND

TRACKED BY THE HEADQUARTERS CORRESPONDENCE MANAGEMENT OFFICE.  SPECIFIC

QUESTIONS MAY BE ADDRESSED TO JILL HOOVER @ (202) 358-0905.
Distribution

Officials-in-Charge of NASA Headquarters Offices:

AI/Dr. Mulville

AB/Ms. Tagg

AE/Mr. Hudkins (Acting)

AF/Mr. Venneri

AJ/Mr. Tam

AO/Mr. Holcomb

AS/Dr. Olsen

B/Mr. Holz

C/Mr. Christensen

E/Mr. Reese

F/Ms. Novak

G/Mr. Frankle

H/Mr. Luedtke

I/Mr. Schumacher

J/Mr. Sutton

K/Mr. Thomas

L/Mr. Heffernan

M/Mr. Rothenberg

P/Ms. Wilhide

Q/Mr. Gregory

R/Gen. Armstrong

S/Dr. Weiler

U/Dr. Nicogossian

W/Ms. Gross

Y/Dr. Asrar

Z/Ms. Garver 
Directors, NASA Centers:

ARC/Dr. McDonald

DFRC/Mr. Petersen

GRC/Mr. Campbell

GSFC/Mr. Diaz

JSC/Mr. Abbey

KSC/Mr. Bridges

LaRC/Dr. Creedon

MSFC/Mr. Stephenson

SSC/Mr. Estess
Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

Dr. Stone

cc:

A/Ms. Roberts

A/Ms. Landrus

AB/Ms. Saldana

AE/Ms. Moore

AF/Ms. Eastman

AI/Ms. Bloxon

AI/Ms. Shaeffer

AO/Ms. Wissinger

AS/Ms. Simms

C-3/Ms. Soper

CIC/Analysts