VEXAG MEETING #11 UPDATES – REGISTRATION, LOGISTICS, AND STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS

VEXAG MEETING #11 UPDATES – REGISTRATION, LOGISTICS, AND STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS

VEXAG Meeting #11 will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, Washington DC with 2 full day sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday, November 19-20, 2013 and a half-day session Thursday, November 21, 2013. Tuesday, November 19th will be a full-day Venus Technology Forum.

Registration and Logistics are now available via a link the VEXAG Web-Site. A block of sleeping rooms is currently on hold for VEXAG Meeting participants at the Residence Inn Marriott, located at 333 E Street, SW Washington, DC 20024 until September 30, 2013 the deadline for reservations.

Applications for Student Travel Grants should be submitted via a second link on the VEXAG Web-Site. Deadline for submission is September 30, 2013. Selections will be announced in mid-October.

Objectives for this meeting are to conduct a community review of new and updated VEXAG documents:
• Venus Exploration Goals, Objectives and Investigations (update)
• Venus Exploration Road-Map (new)
• Technologies for Venus (new)

In addition, there will be status reports on a number of ongoing Venus related activities.