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Vice President Pence to Visit NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vice President Mike Pence will visit NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 6. Published June 30, 2017 Read more from NASA Manage this Applet

NASA Statement on National Space Council Statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot about Friday's Executive Order creating the National Space Council. Published June 30, 2017 Read more from NASA Manage this Applet

Connecticut Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station Students at the Wallingford Public Library in Wallingford, Connecticut, will speak with NASA astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station at noon EDT on Thursday, July 6. Published June 30, 2017 Read more from NASA Manage this Applet

Weekend Reading: Fading Summer Edition Anastasia Salter Sundial, Perranporth flickr photo by Tim Green aka atoach shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Summer is moving quickly, especially for those of us with semester start times looming just around the corner in August. This is the time of year when deadlines on the calendar are definitely closer than they appear. I for one have found myself increasingly focused on the calendar, but it's important to take a break and find time in summer for recovery and reflection. With that in mind, this week's readings focus on time and transitions. Aimée Morrison's piece Beginnings, Endings, and Transitions may be particularly timely for those of you contemplating an ending: "But some of you, like me, are not so much starting something new on Saturday, but rather ending something. Returning to regular ranks, leaving a...

NASA Television to Air Departure of U.S. Cargo Ship from International Space Station After delivering about 6,000 pounds of cargo, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station on Sunday, July 2. NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 11:15 a.m. EDT. Published June 30, 2017 Read more from NASA Manage this Applet

NASA Invites Public to Celebrate 100 Years of Aerospace Breakthroughs NASA invites the public to three days of discussion and storytelling with notable aerospace experts to mark the 100th anniversary of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Portions of the event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Published June 29, 2017 Read more from NASA Manage this Applet

Open Thread Wednesday: What's at the Bottom of your To-Do List? Anastasia Salter Every few days of summer, I recopy my to-do list to a new page of my notebook (currently, a Moleskine Professional Notebook because I like the page layouts.) Jason wrote about addressing the challenges of unstructured summer time through careful to-do list management previously: he advised making use of regular reminders to keep important tasks in front of you. I've written in the past about my preference for physical to-do lists, but I find the very act of recopying is enough reinforcement for most deadlines. The process of re-copying is mostly about adding new things: new commitments, assignments coming in for grading, new meetings, and so on. But the worst part of the process is always when I get to the bottom of the list, which is inevitably filled with the things I most dread. Often these are t...