National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Participatory Exploration: Engaging the Public

Kathy J. Nado Participatory Exploration Team Lead NASA Headquarters Exploration Systems Mission Directorate

Participatory Exploration Overview

In FY11, NASA plans to establish a Participatory Exploration Office.

The new office will:

1.Support research in new technologies to increase public participation.

2.Coordinate NASA-wide efforts to ensure that Participatory Exploration activities are included in future missions. The Office also will coordinate and promote the inclusion of participatory exploration activities in other Agency projects, outreach and education practices.

3.Act as a clearinghouse for identifying and communicating best practices in Participatory Exploration.

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Participatory Exploration is the active involvement of individuals in the experience of, as contributors to, and collaborators in, NASA’s research, science and discovery activities.

Participatory Exploration will foster, facilitate and support active public engagement and collaboration by combining improved technology and Open Government practices to provide a spectrum of engagement possibilities.

Participatory Exploration will increase: •Opportunities for personal connections with NASA and its missions; What is in it for the Society? •Public interest in STEM; What can NASA do to benefit Society? •NASA’s access to the interest, knowledge, skills, creativity and innovation that exists outside the NASA community. What is in it for NASA?

9/14/10 Participatory Exploration 3 Focus Areas

9/14/10 Participatory Exploration 4 Five Degrees of Public Engagement

9/14/10 Participatory Exploration 5 Examples of Existing NASA Public Engagement Activities

Open Source Software Development Open Gov Initiative

Centennial Challenges TedxNASA LCROSS Impact NASA YouTube Gigapan Camera monitoring by amateur astronomers Balloonsat Astronauts using NASA EDGE Co‐Lab/Explorer Twitter NASA analog islands mission campaign Stardust@home

Mission event EarthKAM ISS Node naming Dawn Clickworkers web‐streaming Traveling exhibits

Information Content Conversation Contribution Collaboration Dissemination Interaction

Increasing Intensity of Participation

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NASA Missions Joint NASA - International on US ELV Partner Missions Reimbursable for International Missions with NOAA Substantial NASA Contribution ISS Activities ESMD Missions/Activities

CLARREO-1

DESDynI

Analog Analog Analog FTD 1 FTD 2 Venture MoO

Glory NuSTAR LDCM SAGE III Discovery-12 New Front 3 JEO Analog NPP RBSP OCO-2 MAVEN Analog EX-1 Solar Probe + EX-3

✓WISE Juno LWS SET-1 IRIS GEMS SMAP ICESat-2 Venture 2 EX-2 CLARREO-2

✓SDO GRAIL MSL LADEE JWST MMS GRACE FO GOES-S Astro-1 ES Tier 2-1 Venture MoO NASA/ESA GOES-P Aquarius ST-7 GPM Core Astro-H GOES-R ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter Venture MoO ES Tier 2-2 Mars 2016 Mars 2018 ISS

SOFIA

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

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