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Keith's note: On 27 August there will be an invitation-only media briefing with Jaiwon Shin, NASA's Associate Administrator for Aeronautics who will give a progress report on activities undertaken in the past year and discuss what's ahead for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in fiscal 2010. Alas, you can only attend this event if you are invited and are physically present in Washington, DC. I have been invited but I will be on a train when this briefing occurs. Alas, there is no provision for a phone bridge (even though all the other directorates regularly use them). But they do have money to spend on refreshments.
Given that the actual aeronautics research being discussed is not done at NASA HQ but at various NASA field centers and in the private sector spread out across the U.S., one would think that such an update would be of considerable interest to media who are not physically present in Washington, DC. Given the looming changes that will come from the Augustine Committee and shuttle retirement, people are especially anxious as to understanding what the agency will be doing.
Again, as I have observed before, people in the aeronautics world regularly complain that there is not enough news coming out about aeronautics. This is why.
Another Stealth Launch From Wallops, earlier post
Keith
It is a media briefing
DR Shin has already discussed the 2010 plan with members of ARMD which you are not.
This was done at the field centers in the spring. The stimulus funds were discussed as well.
Editor's note: you miss my point. NASA Aeronautics PAO is limiting access by the *MEDIA* who can ask questions of the AA. I got the MEDIA* invitation - you did not since you are not *MEDIA*, right?.