Notification of Dates of Site Visits:
The dates of the SMEX site visits have been determined. All of the dates were identified as non-blackout dates by the mission PI. The site visit schedule is a finely crafted product which allows all 7 site visits to take place on non-blackout dates, meets several complex NASA schedule constraints, and does not kill the evaluation travel team with 6 consecutive weeks of travel.
Because the dates were pre-approved by the project PI's THERE WILL BE NO DATE CHANGES ALLOWED. If a problem arises with your site visit date, then you should deal with it using the management skills that you propose to bring to a flight project.
Tue Apr 16 - JMEX (Boulder, CO) (questions FAXed on Wed Apr 10)
Thu Apr 18 - AIM (Boulder, CO) (questions FAXed on Fri Apr 12)
Tue Apr 23 - SPEAR (Berkeley, CA) (questions FAXed on Wed Apr 17)
Thu Apr 25 - STEP (Stanford, CA) (questions FAXed on Fri Apr 19)
Tue May 7 - SPIDR (Cambridge, MA) (questions FAXed on Wed May 1)
Thu May 9 - PRIME (Baltimore, MD) (questions FAXed on Fri May 3)
Tue May 14 - HNX (Beltsville, MD) (questions FAXed on Wed May 8)
This schedule will allow for a downselect decision by Ed Weiler and the Space Science Selection Board before July 4, 2002.
The final version of the guidelines will be sent next week. Happy New Year.
Paul Hertz
Explorer Program Scientist
NASA Headquarters Responsible Office: Code SZ
Last Updated: 4 March 2002
Author: Paul Hertz (Code SZ)