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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">SCIENCE ENABLED BY A DEEP SPACE GATEWAY</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">NASA is sponsoring a three-day workshop to actively engage the scientific community in the early stages of determining the ways in which the deep space gateway concept could be used to facilitate science. This workshop
will be held February 27-March 1, 2018, in the Denver area. The final location will be announced at a later date.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">The intent of the workshop is to provide an open forum for the presentation, discussion, and consideration of various concepts, options, capabilities, and innovations to advance scientific discovery from cislunar
space. Attendance will be by invitation only based on submitted abstracts. It is expected that some science investigations may require the attention of a crew while other investigations may simply use the gateway as infrastructure supplying power, communications,
etc.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">The goal is to have parallel sessions covering Heliophysics, Earth Science, Astrophysics, Fundamental Physics, Planetary Sciences, Life Sciences, and Space Biology. Scientists from these communities will discuss how
the presence of the deep space gateway can enable</div>
<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">high-quality science.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Abstracts no longer than 2 pages are requested should be submitted to through the workshop web page by Dec. 15, 2017:</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><a href="https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/deepspace2018/">https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/deepspace2018/</a></div>
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<div>Heliophysics POC are Elsayed Talaat and Jim Spann at NASA HQ, and Barbara Giles at NASA GSFC.</div>
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<div>Dr. Barbara Giles</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Associate Chief Geospace Physics Laboratory</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Lead MMS Fast Plasma Investigation</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Mail Code 673, Building 21, Room 063</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Goddard Space Flight Center</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Greenbelt MD 20771</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11px;">301-286-5574</span></div>
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