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NAL presented our $1,000 check to the Community STEM Senior Coordinator for Girlstart, yesterday. They're doing hands-on STEM activities at Discovery Green downtown as part of a week-long spring break event.

Register now for the 14th Annual NASA Scholarship Golf Tournament and get the early bird price! This event is open to all NASA and contractor employees, retirees, friends, families, and community members. Proceeds from the tournament support the Starport Scholarship Program.

Registration fee includes the green fee, cart fee, breakfast, lunch, custom tournament polo, awards, contest and silent auction entry, a goody bag, and complimentary beverages. Enjoy a day on the green and support future scholars!

• Friday, April 21, 2023

• Quail Valley Golf Club (2880 La Quinta Dr., Missouri City, 77459)

• 8 a.m. shotgun start

• Team Registration - $550 early/$600 late

Not into traditional golf? Check out the 2023 NASA Topgolf Social on March 23rd! Find more information here.

The link to the live stream video for Director Wyche's presentation: https://www.facebook.com/RememberingColumbia/videos/1290685381826251

This video has all the afternoon panels: https://www.facebook.com/RememberingColumbia/videos/73473732831556

This is the memorial service:
https://www.facebook.com/RememberingColumbia/videos/911000403389137/

Hemphill museum preparing for the 20th anniversary remembrances of Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. 

Click Here to watch.

The UHCL Archive has acquired from the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI) around 900 Lunar Orbiter Mission original photographs from the Apollo era.  Due to a change in its storage capacity at LPI they are getting rid of all of its collection of original 20” x 24” matte photographic prints from the Lunar Orbiter II, Lunar Orbiter III, Lunar Orbiter IV, and Lunar Orbiter V, missions of the Moon between 1966 and 1967. They are retaining the original full-sized negatives, but these prints were removed from their holdings and transferred to UHCL.

The newly elected Officers and Directors, listed on the About Us page, are serving a two year term ending in Aug 2024. 

NAL members can drive onsite with a current JSC Alumni badge.  Now is the time to renew your NAL membership and pick up your badge.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/29/what-we-learned-from-the-space-station-this-past-year/

If you have an interest in easily helping preserve the JSC historical collection within the UHCL Archive, here is your opportunity.  On June 22nd NAL representatives (Cyndi Draughon, Sylvia Stottlemeyer, Denny Holt and Greg Blackburn) presented UHCL with a check for $2,200 outside the Alfred R Neumann Library to establish and kick off fund raising for a NAL sponsored endowment to support the JSC Collection via student internships. UHCL Associate Director of Development for University Advancement Richard Zalesak, JSC onsite Archivist Mark Scroggins, and Neumann Library Executive Director Dr. Vivienne McClendon were also in attendance. The full UHCL press release can be found at

https://blog.uhcl.edu/news/uhcl-nasa-alumni-league-launch-human-space-flight-archive-internship-endowment.

The goal of our endowment is to raise a minimum of $25,000 in five years which would then be used to forever pay for a student intern(s) to work alongside the UHCL Archivists to formally support the growing JSC Collection. This 2020 NAL gift also included monies to pay for a student intern for the Fall and Spring semesters in parallel to the endowment fund raising activity.  This intern will augment NAL volunteers that are already helping the UHCL Archive given their limited resources and the high volume of donations of NASA related information.

If you would like to be part of this unique opportunity, you can give directly to the endowment via the Give to UHCL website at

https://giving.uh.edu/uhcl/

Once there just scroll down and click on “Search Funds” which is to the right of “Top Funds” and then type NASA in the “Search for a Designation” box and you will see our endowment pop up.  Click on the endowment name and then follow the instructions for giving.  Every dollar counts!

If you have any questions regarding this NAL activity please do not hesitate to contact Greg Blackburn at greg.c.blackburn@gmail.com.