Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen/NASA Slides Relating to UAP/UFO Program, June 2022

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen/NASA Slides Relating to UAP/UFO Program, June 2022. Released on June 11, 2022, through The Black Vault. The document is a presentation given by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, during the Joint ASEB & SSB Spring Meeting on June 9, 2022. The slides were published by The Black Vault, a website that archives and releases declassified government documents. The document can be found at https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/nasa/zurbuchen.pdf. Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen Associate Administrator NASA Science Mission Directorate @Dr_ThomasZ Joint ASEB & SSB Spring Meeting June 9, 2022 AGENDA: 2 Mission Milestones Mission Continuity & Conclusions High-Risk / High-Impact Research Science Mission Directorate (SMD) R&A Programs Science 2020-2024: Updates 2. Mission Milestones - Hubble Space Telescope: Researchers directly imaged a newly forming exoplanet, AB Aurigae b, using Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph. - Webb Space Telescope: Successfully worked through the second and third phases of mirror alignment, with the individual segment images now falling precisely at the center of the field to produce one unified image. - Perseverance: Took its first look at the bottommost sedimentary layers that make up the Jezero Crater delta and is currently carrying 8 rock core samples collected during the crater floor campaign. - Mars Sample Return (MSR): Parker Solar Probe captured the first images of Venus' surface in visible light, showing the thick clouds that usually shroud the planet. 3. Mission Continuity & Conclusions - Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: Operating far outside its original design limits, with a loss of communications due to insufficient battery state-of-charge, which resulted in a reset of its mission clock. - Voyager 1 Spacecraft: Operating normally, but with invalid telemetry data from its attitude articulation and control system. - Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Concluding its mission after a successful eight years of science, with a review of the current state of astronomical research concluding that SOFIA's science productivity does not justify its operating costs. 4. High-Risk / High-Impact Research - SMD's Approach to Research and Risk: Taking risks is necessary for innovation and leadership, and SMD seeks to blend foundational research with innovative, high-risk/high-impact science. - SMD's Definitions of High-Risk and High-Impact: A high-impact research project has a substantial and measurable effect on current thinking, methods, or practice, while a high-risk research project tests novel and significant hypotheses with little precedent or preliminary data. This is Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen's presentation on NASA's mission milestones, continuity, and high-risk/high-impact research, given during the Joint ASEB & SSB Spring Meeting on June 9, 2022. The document can be found at https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/nasa/zurbuchen.pdf. storyflo.com