NASA Alumni League-JSC Chapter

The NASA Alumni League (NAL) was founded in 1986 after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The JSC Chapter of the NAL was formed in 1989 under the leadership of former JSC Director Gerry Griffin. The JSC NAL founding group wanted local retired NASA personnel to be available to use their talents and experience to tell NASA’s story to the public, to contact legislators regarding their views on space-related issues, testify to key committees of Congress and, if called upon, to perform independent assessments of space-related issues.

Currently, the JSC NAL places emphasis on: furthering of the education of future space scientists and engineers by providing financial support to Space Center Houston and the Challenger Center to allow under privileged elementary school children to participate; by providing members with social and educational opportunities and current information about NAL and NASA activities.

Announcements

NAL-JSC Upcoming Activities

• Board of Directors meeting on the 2nd Thursday of each month – meeting starts @ 12:00 noon and is held in suite 300 at the Tietronix building (1331 Gemini across the road from the JSC Credit Union).
  
  
• The planning is in work to sponsor a 30 minute afternoon tour of the JSC Lunar Science laboratory in Building 31N where many of the lunar rocks are still being studied. The
  tour will be led by one of our NAL members and a nationally known lunar scientist, Dr. Don Bogard.
  
  

Recent Activities

April 12, 2012

A dinner program meeting and social was held at Space Center Houston with approximately 60 people in attendance. Ms. Lauri Hansen, Chief of Staff for the Center Director of theJohnson Space Center was our guest speaker. She provided an excellent briefing on the activities of the Johnson Space Center which was extremely interesting and timely for our members. The audience was quite engaged as evidenced by the questions during and after the formal presentation as well as the individual member engagement with her after the meeting. There were many very positive comments on her briefing from members that evening as well as since the meeting. We want to thank Ms. Hansen for her briefing and also thank her for allowing us to post her briefing chart on our website. See more.

JSC Badges

NAL- JSC has an agreement with JSC management to arrange JSC access badges for our members, which are valid for the one-year period of annual membership. Badges may be obtained, or renewed, at JSC building 110 at the main gate.

Lending Library

The NAL has a lending library of aerospace books that have been contributed by members. These books span the age of all our programs - Mercury to today. These books are stored at Tietronix Software on Gemini Ave. Check here to see the current list of books.

E-mail Address

We need your e-mail address. Send it to fhughes@tietronix.com.