 Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's NASA science town hall with Thomas or book in the associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington. We have members of the science leadership team with us today. Many people are in this room. We have others who are joining us virtually, and we will be sharing updates and highlights and also answering questions. Once I am done introducing, I will drop that link where you can put your questions in into this web. Next chat, and we will try to leave as much time as possible for answering those questions toward the end. In addition to Thomas, we have Holly Dane, the director of the resource management division. We have Christie Hansen, assistant deputy associate administrator for programs. We have Dan Evans, assistant deputy associate administrator for research. Eric Smith, who is the James web program scientist. We have Joel Kerns, director of the exploration science strategy and integration office. Paul Hertz, the astrophysics division director. Craig, contract, the biological and physical science division director. Nikki rail associate director for flight programs in the helio physics division. Lori glaze, who is our planetary science division director Joe gas bar, the Mars sample return deputy program director for technical. And Karen St. Germain, the earth science division director of the town hall is being recorded at the recording and the slides will be made available later today at science dot NASA dot gov. And of course, we will be answering those questions toward the end. So watch for that link. Thank you so much with that. I am going to hand it off to Thomas or book it. Well, thanks so much, Karen, and it's an amazing day again for NASA science and just a day want to celebrate as always. You see, kind of the way we're doing meetings where in one of those rooms that we have the likes of which we have many meetings and you see that some of our colleagues are calling in remotely. I just want to tell you that's how we're running science these days. That's very normal. So we didn't change in any way. Kind of the modality by how we're doing this. I want to ask for the next slide and just tell you that before I even start into it. I want to acknowledge that the planetary decadal is released today. You saw at just an hour ago or 1 and a half hours ago. It was posted to the website there. And I just want to tell you that how excited I am whenever I look at the decadal, but especially the planetary decadal here where so much has happened. You know, together with all the other disciplines that a planetary decadal, of course, is moving us forward really exploring the secrets of the universe and really helping us also at societal value. What I'm particularly excited about in this one is it's inclusion of human exploration as a tools as a means to doing science in a direct fashion in ways. Frankly, it has never done before, but I'm also excited is it's inclusion for the 1st time of planetary defense is a key priority that is there. And of course, I would not be a scientist. I wouldn't be excited about the kind of the targets that are being discussed, both as part of I compete at programs, but also some of these directed missions with Uranus and and salad is being prime targets. I'm sitting 2 seats are from Lori. Why didn't you tell us what's exciting to you, Lori, as we go? Sure. We're all really, really excited. In fact, national academies is going to be giving their briefing in just a little while. About an hour and a half from now at 2 o'clock, and I hope those that are interested are going to tune in and get to hear directly from the co chairs. I'm just how incredibly compelling and exciting and inspirational. This decadal survey is I can't thank the, the decadal survey team members, the panel members that participated enough. They really put in an enormous amount of effort into this and and deliver to report. You know, almost exactly on the schedule that we'd originally identified, even with pandemic. So it's a really exciting program. You're going to see in the, in the decadal. If you haven't looked at it already compelling flagship missions to. To a Uranus and you'll also see really strong support from our sample return, which is really exciting for us as well and lots of great recommendations as Thomas mentioned for our competed programs. Also, great recommendations and feedback on research and analysis planetary defense, astrobiology. It really is an amazing and comprehensive. Decadal survey, the last thing I just wanted to mention is that also has lots of great information regarding the state of our profession. And we're going to read that very, very carefully and take those recommendations very seriously. So, we're, we're looking forward to spending the next 90 days absorbing and getting ready to prepare our kind of preliminary response to the decadal survey. Thanks. Thanks so much, Lori. So, for all planetary fish and others out there, I recommend you do another meeting online, which is the one by the academies. And as you said, 1 and a half hours from now or so, what I'd like to do now is just launch into the program that we have prepared. And as always, I'll talk first about news and updates. Of course, every update these days should start with web, the James Webb Space Telescope and with the image that has made history here. Of course, it's a star in focus. But what's more important, as you look at the background, you see these galaxies that are hanging around, you know, every 1 of our even tech kind of images from from the James Webb Space Telescope is really. Breaking new ground as is this Eric and may talk about it later on. I just want to tell you how excited I am that, of course, the mid infrared instrument, the Murray instrument as a final instrument is basically as we just operating temperatures. The other 3 have been there for a while. I want to tell you that as we go forward, frankly, relatively soon, we're going to really pull together kind of public event in which we're. Telling everybody, especially our good friends, our journalists, kind of what the pathways are from now going forward until we have full operational capability, which of course, where we want to turn it over to the science community that has been waiting for this telescope sometimes for 2 decades. So, I'm just so excited about this and thanks to the team that got us there. Next thing I want to talk about is the Artemis 1 dress rehearsal as we're building the Artemis program, both with robotic exploration with the clips programs, but also with the human exploration going forward. We, of course, have. Observed the progress on Artemis 1 and the wet dress rehearsal. Many of you have followed both the progress that has been made, but also some of the lessons learned that are there. I just want to tell you kind of working on the web and some of these other missions, including Mars 2020 perseverance and and every single mission. I've a tremendous amount of empathy and and understanding of what it means to have lessons learned kind of what we're doing when each 1 of these missions, including this exciting. Rocket that is out there, which frankly takes your breath away if you stand in front of it. I've done it a number of times. What we're doing here is of course, getting this rocket ready to fly, but we're also getting the team ready to support that for me. It's, I'm just really excited. I talked to Jim free on a regular basis and and many of the other colleagues and I just wish our colleagues there, nothing but the best that both NASA, but the that commercial, you know, partners that are there as they're getting this rocket ready to launch later this year. The next slide, of course, tells us that there's another mission that's getting ready for launch, which is psyche, Lori may or may not want to talk about it later on. You see, kind of a spacecraft that's really coming together as a whole. Psyche, of course, it's 1 of the discovery missions together with Lucy kind of 2 missions that are going to explore these kind of historic time records of our solar system and of us in that respect. So I'm really excited to see kind of also a cycle going forward going through these rigorous tests that are done to make sure that the space of course survives long successfully. But also goes on a successful journey to this potentially metal rich asteroid with the with the name, which of course gave psyche its name and so, so basically, which just couldn't be more proud of that team. Also, I just want to make sure everybody who looks at the is how every 1 of these achievements is hard and and kind of if anybody thinks that even if somebody makes it locally easy, like, for example, the web team at times here in the past. Just make no mistake. This is a team that has come together and is showing true excellence. It is still just as hard as we thought it would be the same as through here with psyche. I just want to tell you that Janice that 2 small spacecraft will be launched with it. These will be kind of another success for our program that brings smaller spacecraft to better with big ones in this case to the to the solar system beyond the earth. Of course, like so many of the others have been closer. The next slide tells us that we're going to launch into programs and research and the next slide is telling you that you've seen that there's of course. The budget that has come out with the priorities that you can read here so many of these you have recognized from the past, our leadership in earth system science, addressing the climate crisis is frankly, something we've been working on for so, so many years. It's a truly bipartisan effort of of trying to really add value to to our population here in the United States and beyond by taking all the technologies to be having space to serve our planet and help communities. And we can do better. We want to do better, which is exactly what this budget is really supporting. Artemis science is what we're leading as part of this program that I just talked about 1 element of and we want to do this. By building the best teams possible, which requires that we champion inclusion diversity, equity and accessibility. There are no other ways of the matter. It's also the right thing to do, but that's what we do. And frankly, we're excited that this is something again that this administration is is supporting. Of course, we have in every case want to build just like the planetary program that we're talking about is a balanced and innovative program. And I really focus towards open signs. We believe that open signs. We've talked about this is by adding technology is really very much opening up our signs to many more. Participants, whether those are users of our data on earth, or whether those are scientists who may not be in the traditional universities that have done this work. So what I'm going to do quickly on the next slide is take it over to Holly because she's better at numbers that I am. It seems. I'm not sure about that. All right. Well, it's been a busy month for budget. So what we have here is we have the cameras there. The 2023 presidents budget for science. So you will see that that request is 7.9 83 for science. And let me just walk you through a little bit of what that entails. So you'll see earth science and it's programs there at 2.4 billion. Planetary science request is 3.16 billion and you'll notice that more sample return is included in that as a standalone program. And if we go to the next chart. I'll just call out 1 new feature here in the budget is that James web now that it is an operating mission is included in the astrophysics budget request. And so you'll see that if you care to look at the budget documents that you can see online. JWST is included as a mission in the cosmic origins program. And it's no longer a standalone division. We also have heliophysics request at 716 million. And there is a new program in the heliophysics budget space weather program. And you can see it there. And then we have biological and physical sciences and the request there is 100. So, if we go to the next chart, we've also had our appropriation came in the middle of March, roughly 22 appropriation. It shows 4% growth over the 2021 budget. You can see there. The enacted is 7.6 billion. It's under the request, but over the 2021 budget. So, you can see, if you read the documents there, there's support for lots of high priority activities such as sample return, clipper, Roman. Lunar discovery, space, weather, and their system observatory. So, lots of good things happening there that are supported by the 7.6 billion dollar budget, which is the highest budget we've had. You'll, you'll see NASA's response to it is a change from the request and we're working on our operating plan now that will be submitted in the coming weeks to Congress. As we work with our congressional stakeholders to figure out exactly how we will be spending that 7.6 billion. And with that, I'll turn it over to Christy Hanson, I believe. Thank you. Happy to report that the status of our programs today is good. We're managing 126 missions in various stages and life cycle reviews and we definitely have our hands full. We've recently successfully launched goes 18 in March 2022. So, I'm sure many of you've been following the successes of that mission and we're very proud of that. And our teams are working together to share in lessons learned so we can ensure future successes with several launches coming up in 2022, including tropics, psyche, which Thomas was talking about earlier, JPSS to emit and SWAT. So, stay tuned for those. Also very important in the SMD portfolio is developing technology and working on our small set and keeps that portfolio efforts to advance and enable our sciences. So SMD works very closely with the technology mission director at STMD in order to help select SMD relevant space technology and sequential topics. So, this is very important to us and we're making a lot of progress on this. Our 2021 small spacecraft virtual form report has just been released. Many of you have probably seen that by now. This was the work recently done by the small spacecraft form held last year and it ran over a 2 month period. We had greater than 200 participants attending some of the panels. We're also excited to, to welcome our new chief technologist, Carolyn Mercer, which you've heard about at the last town hall, as well as Florence Tan. We have a great team that are helping develop our technology. In terms of our portfolio management, we're spending a lot of time on this working with the agency and enhancement of our programs and projects with management and oversight. So the agency is working together to overall improve projects and portfolio across all the directorates. We recently rolled out our large missions implementation plan, which has incorporated recommendations from the large mission study and we're actually using those recommendations already to improve our project performance. In terms of key documents, we released the SMD class D mission assurance document and we're currently working on the class D implementation guide and the compliance matrix, which will be coming soon. At this point, I'd like to hand it over to Dan Evans to talk about I pour. Thanks, Christie. So yeah, I'd like to spend a minute or two speaking about innovation and entrepreneurship because here in SMD we truly believe that building an entrepreneurial mindset in our ecosystem is going to allow us to make the next transformational discoveries. So today I want to announce a new partnership with NASA's space technology mission directorate in conjunction with NSF because we're making available NSF's massively successful I call program to the entire NASA science community. Now I call is an experiential program. It's designed to help researchers gain insight into entrepreneurship or to starting a business in short, it's designed to help translate a promising idea from the lab to the marketplace. And the best part of I call is it will be funding teams to take part in the program. We have an amazing new team member Maggie Yancy, who's leading this new initiative. So look out for a brand new solicitation in the coming weeks and I'll pass it back to Thomas. Thanks. Well, I think now it's time to go over to the, to the division directors and you see the list in front of you and Eric without further ado, I'll just kick it to you. Tell us about James. Let's go Eric. Okay, thanks Thomas. So the picture you showed earlier was, of course, that stacked image of a single star field and the picture you see here, which was released at the same time is actually the telescope taking a picture of itself. It literally is a selfie and it's one of the modes that was built into the near infrared camera, which you can see was led by March or Ricky at the University of Arizona and built by Lockheed Martin. And it's one of the elements of the optics that we use to help us phase up and make sure that all 18 of those segments indeed act like one single mirror. Now, this was done when we were using just the near infrared instruments. There's three of those and we recently brought our fourth instrument, the mid infrared instrument online and are going through that same process of focusing the mirror now for all four instruments. And if we actually go to the next slide, this is just a little timeline of where we are in this commissioning process, getting ready for science. We had to submit the charts a little bit ahead of time, but that star should be very close to that telescope aligned vertical line you see there, meaning we will now have the telescope phased up for all four instruments. And then we go into this green portion, which stands for science instrument science instrument commissioning. This is where we prepare all of the science instruments for the science that they're going to be doing in about two months. And so there's a lot of detailed tasks that the instruments have to perform with their various filters and they take a spectra. And once we have all those in a state ready to do science, that's the event Thomas alluded to will be putting out some data, letting the world ready, let the world know that web is ready to do science. And so that's coming up. And importantly, we're right on schedule so far. So with that, I will pass along to, I believe, Joel. Hey, thank you, Eric. First, I'd like to let everyone know that Dr. Brad Bailey has been named the new assistant deputy associate administrator for exploration in SMD. Red has worked as a program scientists and our exploration science strategy integration office for some time and we're really happy to have read on as assistant. Dax, if you went to the lunar and planetary science conference a few months ago, you probably saw great presentations on the Apollo next generation sample analysis. Activities, one of the last sealed samples from the Apollo 17 mission has been successfully opened and is now have gone to going initial characterization and going out to various scientific characterization teams. We have 2 exploration, lunar exploration and Mars exploration related science workshops coming up 1 of the beginning of May to talk about science objectives for humans exploration on the surface of Mars. And 1 later on in May to talk about the lunar surface science workshop where you will get updates from the various as the headquarters office, such as the new exploration systems development mission director as well as science mission director. We are still on track to make prism to award selection announcements in May, coming up soon. And in addition to the photos, you can see on the right of people opening up the X of samples at the bottom, right? You can see progress of astrobotic technologies. Griffin lander structural test model. This is the full scale structural test model that is validating part of the design for the Griffin lander that will take the viper rover. To the moon at the South Pole, and you can see it getting ready to start acoustic tests in the photo, but just this week it's moving on to vibration testing at its test house in California. We're continue to get good support from the White House in the Congress on expanding lunar discovery and exploration. You can see where we were at the bottom left in 21, what was requested in 23. And how we expect the 22 enacted budget to end up. So, L depth is literally discovery and exploration is very busy. Lots of activities going on with that. I'll pass it over to astrophysics Paul Hertz. Thank you very much, Joel. Well, we're very excited that the imaging X-ray polarimetry explorer, the X, V small explorer launched last December. And it is in its 1st year of science observations to date. It has observed 17 celestial objects. The team has publicly announced that at least 3 of them are observed to be polarized. Therefore, we know that the position, sensing, imaging, polarimetry, detecting and energy discriminating telescope and set detectors are working just fine. The team is working very hard for their 1st publications in the peer reviewed literature. We selected the 24 new Hubble fellows in the Hubble fellowship program for the 2022 cohort. This year, I'm sorry, recently, the nicer mission on the International Space Station, which is an X-ray timing explorer by timing the observing the pulse profile of a magnet are was able to observe the magnetic hot spots on that magnet are moving around the surface of the magnet are and merging. This is very similar to the way active regions on a star like the sun move around. But it's the 1st time it's been observed on a neutron star. Speaking of the nicer mission, the nicer team won the Rossi Prize this year for its insights into the extreme environments and the 1st measurement of a pulsars mass and radius, which tightly constrains the nuclear equation of matter, nuclear state of matter. And for those of you who want more details on our astrophysics program, we'll be conducting astrophysics town hall where the principal topic will be implementing the decadal survey and that'll be on May 3rd. We've sent out notifications to the community and you can find notifications online. One more chart, please. We're really excited that we have confirmed 5,000 planets around other stars. Remember 30 years ago, we had no of zero. But the last thousand were found in the last few months. With the test mission, finding candidates all the time, the acceleration of the discovery and confirmation of exoplanets has really accelerated. Of course, some of these exoplanets will be the targets for the large mission to characterize exoplanets that was recommended in the Astrophysics Decadal Survey. And now I will pass it on to Craig. Thank you, Paul. Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. Since we last met, we're delighted in our collaboration with several institutes of the NIH, the FDA and BARDA, a biomedical advanced research and development authority, to award nine contracts. It's actually we bumped it up from eight. We're able to do a ninth to develop extended duration tissue chips based on human tissue. And these will last up to six months. And we're hoping this will be a transformative way for us to eventually send these to flight and really assess the impact on humans because we can fly so few astronauts and collect data. Meanwhile, on the ISS, we bid a fond farewell to ACME, no kidding ACME, the advanced combustion and microgravity environment apparatus. You see Kate Rubens on the right installing four years ago. That was a very successful run looking at gaseous fuel combustion. And now we're transitioning over a multi-year study of solid fuel. Also in February, Cygnus NG17 launched five different experiments for BPS and supported the solid combustion facility development. On the budget front, we're very happy that we've seen the first increase in the BPS budget in a very long time on the order of a decade. And we are using that to continue our focus on quantum science and thriving in deep space. And the proposed budget increase in the President's budget request, we're looking to use to take advantage of the burgeoning capability in the commercial world, both suborbital and in low earth orbit. On the personnel side, on the upper right, we want to extend a welcome to John Howard, who joins us as the space biology deputy program manager. And then on the bottom row there, you see Jamie Bales and Sylvan Costas. We want to congratulate them on their NASA honor awards. And with that, let's go over to Nikki Rail and see what's new. It's under the sun. Thanks, Craig. All right, with the Helio physics division, I'd like to first congratulate the tracers mission. They are confirmed for flight at their cue to position point C on March 31. We really look forward to transitioning into implementation activities. Also riding along on that mission is the magic technology demonstration. It recently successfully passed its approval to transition from formulation to implementation on March 8. And we're really excited about this demonstration of this novel magnetometer that will be coming soon. On March 17, we selected three drive centers to kind of approach grand challenge science schools with synergistic teams and work towards achieving breakthrough results with Dr. Hoeksema at Stanford, Dr. Merkin at APL, and Dr. Ofer at Boston University. On February 10, we also made two new selections for science missions to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the sun and sun-earth connections with Muse or the multi-slit solar explorer mission with Bart de Pontu at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center and Helio Swarm with Harlan Spence at the University of New Hampshire. Back in February, we launched our MINX 3 CubeSat, but on March 7, we recently achieved first light. This CubeSat is a pretty cool opportunity because it's really enabled by students. With the University of Colorado at Boulder and LASP, there's more than 40 grad students, three undergrads, and even a high school student helping to enable this mission. We've also had a busy time recently with sounding rockets with our Bolt2 launching on March 21st from Wallace. Lamp from Poker Flat on March 5th and Herschel, which launched from White Sands misaligned on March 9th. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to Lori Glaze to talk about planetary science. Thank you. Thank you, Nikki. Before jumping into the meat of the chart, I just want to acknowledge the photo on the top right there. That is an acknowledgement of the OSIRIS-REx team that received the Jack Swagger Award recently at the National Space Symposium in Colorado a couple of weeks ago. So congratulations to the team. I really wanted to emphasize today some of the science that we're doing in support of Artemis. You heard from Joel some of the great things going on in the Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program. I also want to talk about the science planning that we have in preparation for Artemis. So I want to make sure folks are aware that at the Lunar Planetary Science Conference in March, we held an Artemis Town Hall, included Sarah Noble and Jake Bleacher. That was recorded and it's available on the LPI YouTube page if you'd like to review that and see that. We also have an upcoming Lunar Surface Science Workshop. The next in this series of really successful virtual workshops is coming up on May 10th, the focus of which is Artemis. We are going updates from headquarters. Folks that are really interested in understanding where we are with Artemis and what the plans are, that's a good place to tune in. From the science side, we have a bunch of activities going on to help plan for the science of Artemis. The ANXA-1, Joel mentioned a highly successful program to open up the Apollo samples. We expect a draft call to come out soon for ANXA-2 again to provide access to some of these stored Apollo samples. We also have a call out for the Artemis III geology team. We're planning for the Artemis III geology team and for a call for the Artemis III and Artemis V instruments that would be deployed by the astronauts when they're on the surface at the moon. So stay tuned and look out for those calls as well. We actually already, I think, are expecting selections sometime soon for the analog activities to support lunar operations, that call. So again, a lot of science activity around trying to assure science, a strong science program that's part of Artemis, intimately engaged with Artemis program. Thomas mentioned psyche, great progress there in their assembly tests and launch operations. In fact, we expect them to ship to the Cape at the end of the month and their launch window will open up on August 1st. So really getting a lot of excitement building there. Europa Clippers started their assembly test and launch operations in March and so they are moving forward very well towards their launch planned in 2024. And then as we mentioned at the top of the of the call here, the planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey released today. I want to mention again, encourage folks to tune in at two o'clock to the national academies to hear the briefing directly from the co chairs. Our plan from within planetary is to take 90 days to absorb this really comprehensive document at 677 pages long. And so we want to take a little time to make sure we absorb it in 90 days about mid July, you can expect a preliminary response from us through town halls and at various meetings with a fuller response and that implementation plan as Paul was discussing for astrophysics, you can expect something similar from us sometime a little later down the road. So with that, I'm going to pass it over to Joe Gasper, who's going to tell us about Mars sample return. Hey, thanks, Laurie. And you know, it's been a very exciting spring for the Mars sample return program. And as we like to say in the program, it's never a dull day to be working Mars sample return. With that, clearly we've we watch with beta breath every time perseverance takes a sample. And we've been very encouraged to see that we've already got eight rock core samples that have been collected, cashed, sealed, and that includes samples that can be dated and have organic compounds. And of course, that is the prize that we're bringing back from our sample returns. We're very happy to see that. On the program side, you know, we are in formulation, we're in phase A still. And we've been working on the independent review board findings and their recommendations that came out just prior to our enter into phase A. One big trade that recently completed that you've heard about perhaps is that we did complete the lander architecture trade study this spring. And that ended in a decision by the program to implement a dual lander architecture that includes a sample retrieval lander for the MAV payload, as well as a sample retrieval lander for the sample fetch rover that is being built by the Europeans. It also comes with an alignment of the launch opportunities for those two landers to 2028. And going with that at a realignment of the Earth return orbiter with its capture container return system payload to launch in 2027. All that supports the program moving forward is consistent with the IRB recommendations that came out. This approach was worked jointly with our European Space Agency counterparts. Of course, they are a partner in Mars Sanford Turn. And it builds off of our heritage of successes. And all this allows us to get the program completed and launched by the end of this decade. Of course, you know, would be remiss if I didn't mention that ESA's planned September launch of the XMR's mission has obviously been impacted by world events and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. We are currently evaluating the impacts of the Mars Sanford Turn program on the ESA side. A lot of the same people and individuals that work the XMR's program were also working Mars Sanford Return. So that's something that we're working through our European partners. On the success and demonstrations side, implementation is all about, you know, in a lot of ways showing progression in engineering and technical development. One of those that we were very happy to see was the completion of drop testing for our Earth Entry System. It had a manufacturing demo year that we took out to the desert out in Utah at the Utah test and training range and we're able to drop it from a helicopter gave us a lot of confidence that the design of the Earth Entry System as we are envisioning it is working well. And you can see a picture of it on the right. In addition to that, we've got some exciting things coming up this summer, including our program system requirements review, which we're currently targeting for June. And then that will follow into the key decision point B, which is our official entry point into phase B, which is really the second half formulation. Laurie mentioned at the top about the strong support that we were happy to see in the Decadal survey that came out for planetary. In addition to that, the president's FY 23 budget request also strongly supports Mars Sanford Return. So that's something that we're very happy about. And then finally, last but not least, the MSR campaign science group phase one solicitations for membership is currently out. And we were very happy to see that and I think I've got the numbers right here that we've already received 80 notice of intense of people that are interested in being members of that campaign science group. But just remind everyone the letters of application are due a week from today on April 26. With that, I'll hand it over to Karen St. Germain to talk about earth science. Great. Thank you. And happy Earth Day week, everyone. It's never too early to start celebrating Earth Day. And we have a lot of activity going on around Earth Day in our in the Earth Science Division this week. In addition, I'll just talk about some of the highlights. So just about a month or so back, we visited the team in France at the Talos facility that's integrating the SWAT payload with satellite. That's an incredible effort, a credible and incredible international effort. And and it's been really challenging to work through that integration throughout the COVID period. But we're well on track to integrate test and launch by the end of the year. The Central Six Michael Freilich, this is a this is a launch that was near and dear to my heart. It was my first launch in this job. And of course, named in honor of my friend Michael Freilich. Not only is that satellite doing extraordinarily well, but it has now taken over duties as the global reference satellite measuring sea level. In ISET 2 data sets on we have new data sets on sea ice, water, extent, vegetation and so forth, now available nearly immediately after collection, after observation. So that's enabling new science and discoveries in that part of our portfolio. Nachos One launched to the International Space Station and I am going to claim that Earth Science can take the prize for best mission acronyms here. That will deploy in June. And and that is to measure trace gases. This is out of our ESTO program. So one of the things we're always doing is trying to find, take advantage of new technologies in demonstrating new observation approaches. We also are back in the field full force with the impacts in Air Lucy airborne missions. Impacts is studying snow and how it plays in our environment. And Air Lucy is actually characterizing the moon to use to improve our ability to use that as a calibration reference for Earth observation systems. Also of note, we attended the commodity classic. This is a large agriculture conference focusing on commodities corn, wheat, sorghum, soy, and so forth. Really to talk with the with the farmers and producers themselves about how we might make Earth science data more impactful in in their in their in their enterprise. We also released jointly with NOAA, a sea level rise report, really telling us what we might be expecting by the middle of the century, as well as some the the annual results out of the snow and ice data center on the winter sea ice extent. This is an indicator of it's in a very sensitive indicator of climate change. And then finally, talking just for another minute about making our Earth science observations impactful to with you know, with lives and livelihoods and communities around the US and around the world. We're working with local communities to help them characterize how well some of their efforts to mitigate urban heat are working. Also characterizing the melting permafrost and the connections between humidity and flu outbreaks. So we're really, we're really exercising our understanding of Earth science right at the boundary of the earth as a system and the human communities that rely on it. And with that, I think I'll hand back over to Karen or Thomas. I think I'm going to just put in a comment before I kick it to Karen to do the discussion. And I just wanted to thank all of you who are part of this endeavor. These say we're talking about so many of the things that are happening missions that are being confirmed missions that are launching missions that are creating science and it's does not escape us that it takes all of us to do that. So all the thousand plus people who have called in or that over this time. So I want to thank you for being part of this community and really being, you know, an active and engaged partner in this. I want to also acknowledge that even though we're again able to sit in the same room because of the power of science that we recognize that in so many of our kind of lives that COVID remains a factor here and there and frankly has touched many of the lives of our community. And I would just want to tell you that we see that and that we're as we search the path forward to do it the right way and really continue to build that team and ask the science that we're so passionate about together with our partners. I'm going to kick it over to you now. Fantastic and thank you everybody for the presentations. We have about 15 to 20 minutes to answer questions. We're certainly going to try to get through as many of those as we can or reminder. I dropped a link at the top of the chat and the WebEx if you want to vote up questions or add more. We do have one additional person in addition to all the people who have spoken. Michael knew the Deputy Associate Administrator for Research is also available to help answer questions and just a warning that Lori Glaze is going to have to leave a few minutes early for that planetary decadal meeting over at the National Academy of Sciences. But with that, let us get started. The first question is about James Webb Space Telescope and its name and the continued discussion around that and a sense of loss of community trust based on that. So the question is how are people, how are we working to fix that community trust? I'll toss that to you Thomas. We all have talked about this in many of the meetings and you recognize of course that there's a number of discussion partners that are in it. We have at the last occasion Paul Hertz has updated the astrophysics community that the assessment of the historian we have talked about. Everybody should please hold on. Unfortunately the Wi-Fi at NASA headquarters sometimes drops out and I'm sure that's what happened with the conference room. So please hold on. They're getting back and I've been told the question was tossed to me. So the NASA historian and a contractor historian will be visiting the archives that have reopened both the Department of State archive and the Harry Truman archive. And after they complete their research they will be releasing information to in a public forum that will explain what NASA's decision is and what it was based on. And the administrator in his announcement that at the time NASA would not be changing the web space telescope did say at this time. So we'll look forward for the historian's research to be completed. NASA is aware that the community some of the community is hurt and much and more of the community is disappointed in NASA's response. When we complete our research we will release that additional information and at that time we'll look for the community to reassess whether or not we have re-established that trust. Thank you so much Paul. We had just tossed to you as it was so that was perfect timing and we seem to be back online. With that we will go to our second question which is what is the status of the Artemis moon mission especially given the current delays and Joel Kearns I believe you are going to answer that for us. Yes I mean you've heard Thomas mention it early in the intro about all the work going into the the wet dress rehearsal and the later testing activities for the Artemis one mission at KSC and then also Lori Glaze talked about many of the calls coming up for to prepare instruments and the geology team for Artemis three which will be the first landing mission on the surface in 2025 you know. So the summary answer is people are working really hard and fast on a variety of different Artemis activities now. The Artemis one as as Thomas mentioned is going through his wet dress rehearsal the first time the the new Orion spacecraft SLS rock and the ground systems have come together for cryogenic fueling testing they're learning a lot from that I know they're looking now at the data from the last week to plan the future tests going forward you know on Artemis one there is a cube set from heliophysics a cube set for planetary science there's also experiments in the Orion spacecraft bio experiment one from biological and physical sciences after Artemis one flies this year attention will turn to the first crewed flight around the moon on Artemis two in 2024 as well as the launch of the initial elements of the gateway which will go into the near rectangle near halo orbit around the moon it'll launch in 24 it'll spiral out get to the moon later than that and the first heliophysics investigation instrument Hermes will be on that halo slash PPE initial element for Artemis so the plans are in place for the Artemis missions coming up and as Lori Glaze pointed out we're already starting getting the geology team competition framed as well as the initial instruments that the crews will take down to the lunar surface as well as handheld instruments so all the teams are working really really fast and hard and we'll see we'll see soon how we're going to progress to Artemis one's launch but or is that one is just the first of many missions that are coming up relatively soon thanks Karen thank you so much Joel the next question up is about Mars sample return and whether cost overruns there are going to affect Mars research in general we'll go to Thomas first and and certainly Laurie or Joe if you want to weigh in you may I think it's really important when we talk about cost performance that we look at the lifetime of the kind of the life cycle of the mission where it is I just want to make sure that everybody is aware of that so when we start a mission and everybody who's ever built a project obviously with the initial ideas on the table and an initial architecture we're actually not really able to set a cost fully and you know we go through these key decision points as we talk about and really the key decision point Charlie is the time where we really have with a lot of rigor we can set a cost and frankly we hold ourselves accountable and we've given over many many times or many years we've continually given the performance relative to that now I just want to do know that we're deeply aware of the fact that Mars sample return is both an ambitious program and one that we need to make sure stays within the cost bounds that it has because as the decadal says that will be reported in the future it really should be only up to a certain percentage of the whole program of planetary sciences so yes we want to do Mars sample return where it's time to do that yes we want to control the cost but yes we also want to do a mission that actually brings those samples back the best way we know how and so for us at this moment in time what's happening in the team is all these discussions right now kind of how do we simplify how do we make sure that at the end the system that we're building is in fact executable and will work without really breaking the bank the only thing I really want to add I think Thomas said it very clearly but just to re-emphasize that we we set the the commitment to these missions at the confirmation review which is the KDP Charlie as he said and at this point we are still in phase a we have not even made it to KDP Bravo yet so we are in the process of maturing that design and getting to that point I will just want to emphasize again also that the decadal survey came out in very strong support of Mars sample return and and recognized that there may be still some increases in store they they recognize just how complex this this mission is and have set some guidelines for how we assure that it does not negatively impact the rest of our planetary science portfolio they also recommended that we execute Mars sample return as quickly as possible and not and not let it delay so we can have short-term savings by pushing things out but we recognize that the quicker we can return those samples the safer they'll be and the the less the overall cost will be so we are committed to to that and Joe did you want to add anything further no and and I would have stressed the same things that the Thomas did regarding the fact that we're still in phase a you could see you know as as we talked about today that that you know we're still completing fundamental trade studies that that align with the IRB's recommendations the only thing I would add is that you know as as we've said from the very beginning MSR is only implementable with our partners from ESA and so you know making sure that we continue to work that partnership in fact that you know Jeff is out a JPL as we speak meeting with ESA and so that's you know that's a key component here and of course we're having to adjust to their realities that they're dealing with as I mentioned in the presentation but but you know that's that's the key here is is making sure that we work effectively and efficiently with our European partners thank you so much the next question I will talk to Thomas what is our current position on cooperation with Russia we recognize that the situation around Russia and in Europe with Ukraine is frankly as almost no precedent in our lifetime so I grew up in Switzerland you can tell from my accent and I remember all my youth I was worried about those the Soviet block on the other side of that wall and I was so grateful to visit Berlin when the wall came down and actually work in Moscow with so many of the friends that we have scientists that have been our friends over many many years our situation is of course that frankly with with everything at hand you know we have I really looked at all and you know all interactions with Russia as we can as the administration has come out and clearly condemned the discussions at hand we do believe that the focus that we have and we want to really continue and very much focus on overall is is the space station which is a in many ways a you know a project that demonstrates how nations coming together can work there and I want to remind people of course that a lot of the initially the the space station actually in the ideas came about before some of these big transitions that that I just mentioned out of my own life so that's where we are I think this as we go forward as of course can continually evolve and just everybody needs to be aware of that thank you I'm going to go slightly out of order so we get a lorry question in before she has to slip out so I'm moving to the question of when will we know the draft and final AO dates and budget caps for the next new frontiers and discovery missions that's a great question Karen and thanks to all those who asked this question I know it's on the top of everyone's minds we recently announced that with the the president's budget request for 2023 that we were going to advance the new frontiers AO into 2023 we are working right now to finalize exactly what that schedule is going to look like so and we'll let you know as soon as as we possibly can and I can tell you that it will be very soon we are actually trying to coordinate with ns and d and y'all may not believe this but we're trying to coordinate internally to make sure that all of our aos from the different divisions don't end up on top of each other so we are trying to ease some of that that pressure that some of the proposing centers have in trying to respond but we will have more guidance on exactly the timing very soon as I said we do expect the new frontiers call the final AO to come out within 2023 we would like to have six to 12 months of time for folks to look at the draft AO in advance of that have plenty of time and we also will be putting out a community announcement regardless of that schedule in the next several months that will identify the key parameters of that call so you can look for more information on the schedule in the very near term and then more information on the final parameters for new frontiers five over the next several months and then for discovery as we noted when the project came out is is kind of swapping places with new frontiers again to try and avoid having them on top of each other and to also allow a little bit of space between the two newly selected discoveries and the next call on the timing on that discovery call is is still a little bit TBD and we will provide information to the community as soon as we can you can expect it will not be on top of new frontiers it will be after new frontiers and we'll provide more guidance on that timing in the coming months so thank you thanks and enjoy your next meeting Laurie all right going back up one what is the latest news on GDC the payload selection and the beginning of mission activities that's a helio mission I'm talking tossing to Nikki great yeah thank you so I'm happy to say we're in the very final steps of the selection process we're in the midst of completing those announcements will be made with it within the next few weeks so very soon but within the next few weeks we'll look forward to releasing the results thanks so much all right moving on to some earth questions so looking to Karen St. Germain they're they're two in a row and we'll try to get them in before we have to finish up here the first they're two different subjects but they're both to you the first is what what proprietary consideration to SpaceX giving NASA to change the launch vehicle for SWAT why isn't this public so I don't have background on that if there's something you can answer let us know if not we'll see what we can find out and the other question is what is the latest climate achievement by NASA yeah I think on the SWAT question I'd have to actually defer to launch services I don't have details on that but but what I can do is jump in at the second question was on climate results well if one climate result is good three or better so I'll highlight my favorite top three first one is the results coming out of our earth radiation budget program that confirmed that over the last 15 years the net energy imbalance that is more energy coming into the earth system from the sun than going out that imbalance has doubled in the last 15 years so that's that speaks to fundamentally understanding the what's at the root of of climate change we we also have I mentioned already the joint release of the sea level rise report with NOAA that starts to give real quantitative information to coastal communities around the world about one of the major impacts of climate change and the third thing I'll highlight is our exports field campaign which is is trying to understand the role that oceans may play and in particular organisms in the ocean may play in not just absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but also sequestering it down to the bottom of the ocean so how science may help us understand how we may start making strides to manage climate change thanks I'm afraid that is all the time we have today there are a lot of other good questions here I'm sorry we cannot get to all of them as a reminder this will be up on science.nasa.gov the full recording so you can go back over it then and I will toss to Thomas to finish us up any final last words I just want to thank the whole team for the presentation here and look forward to to the next one and the period between that of course I want to encourage all of you as you have questions that come up in a given discipline to contact a respective leader in that discipline or their team I think it's really important that that communication is open and we encourage you to do so with that I wish you nothing but the best and as you said happy Earth Day later this week every day on Earth on this planet is an Earth Day and it's very great to celebrate it at the end of this week specifically thanks so much everyone