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NASA Deputy Director Visits Dalton

Jeff Volosin, the new Deputy Director of the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, is the Project Manager for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. During his visit, Mr. Volosin spoke with high school Astronomy students about exoplanets and discovering whether life exists outside our universe.
Students and faculty gathered on the 13th floor for Mr. Volosin’s presentation about his work on the TESS mission. Mr. Volosin explained that TESS is a small satellite with photometry cameras that measure photons in the sky to determine the location of exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun). He then shared details about the many steps involved in building the satellite, launch, and how to achieve orbit between the earth and the moon as students watched in awe.

Over the past 27 years, Mr. Volosin has held a variety of positions in the federal government and aerospace industry. Before joining TESS, he served as NASA's Deputy Division Chief for Space Communications, which encompassed oversight of NASA's Network of Tracking & Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), ground-based tracking antennas distributed throughout the world, as well as the development of advanced laser communications flight systems. 

Mr. Volosin has spent half his career supporting Earth and Space Science robotic spacecraft development and operations both at the Goddard Space Flight Center and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) Satellite Operations Facility–and–half his career supporting human spaceflight including almost 10 years as a systems engineer and life support engineer, studying future human missions to the Moon and Mars.

Story submitted by K-12 Engineering Department Chair Sloan Warren and HS Preceptor Cory Cummings.
 
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