Easterly News

Ninth issue of NASA’s transition-focused publication, Rendezvous, lifts off

As the end of the Shuttle Program comes to the end of its three-decade mission, there’s a dedicated workforce spread across the nation wondering what’s next. Helping to define the future of human space flight and the larger objectives of Moon-Mars exploration for the Shuttle workforce is the central Mission of Rendezvous, Where today meets tomorrow, an online, interactive quarterly publication written, edited, designed and produced by Easterly. Available to NASA workers and space program contractors via the agency’s multi-center intranet, Rendezvous is also available to the world via downloadable, printable files posted on the agency’s public site at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/353998main_rendezvous_v3n2.pdf.

This ninth issue of the online magazine covers the impact of Shuttle retirement on the ongoing function of the International Space Station, transition-related human resource initiatives across the agency and its prime contractors, and progress reports on transition and retirement activities and Constellation Program developments, among other topics of interest to an extended space flight family.