[meteorite-list] NASA JPL Hosts Launch: Beyond Waste Forum

[Ron Baalke]

July 12, 2012

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1100 
jbuck at nasa.gov 

Will Schmitt 
U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington 
202-712-4971 
wschmitt at usaid.gov 


MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-129

NASA JPL HOSTS LAUNCH: BEYOND WASTE FORUM

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA and partners from the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste 
forum will discuss innovative ideas for waste management during a 
3-day forum July 20-22. Waste management is important for planning 
long-duration human spaceflight missions to an asteroid, Mars or 
beyond. 

Reporters are invited to attend the forum at NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Reporters must register in advance by 
contacting Joshua Buck at jbuck at nasa.gov by 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT) 
July 19. 

LAUNCH: Beyond Waste is part of an initiative to identify, showcase 
and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges 
through a series of forums. It is the fourth forum in the series. 

LAUNCH allows NASA to propel innovative solutions that help those 
outside the agency make the connection between our lives on Earth and 
how we live and work in space. Through the U.S. Agency for 
International Development (USAID)'s involvement, LAUNCH places a 
special emphasis on accelerating innovations poised for large-scale 
impact in improving the lives of people in the developing world. 

During the forum, nine international participants will showcase new 
innovations that could address waste management problems on Earth and 
may be used to solve problems for long-duration spaceflight. 

NASA, USAID, Nike Inc. and the U.S. State Department are LAUNCH 
founding partners. The Office of Naval Research; Vestergaard 
Frandsen; IDEO, a design and innovation consulting firm; and 
Architecture for Humanity are partners for LAUNCH: Beyond Waste. 

The partners all contributed to planning the forum, selecting 
innovators and recruiting other event participants. A list of the 
innovators and innovations will be available online before the forum 
at: 

http://www.launch.org 

The public may access and engage in the Launch: Beyond Waste 
conversation online through MindMapr at: 

http://mindmapr.nasa.gov 

A link to live video of the conference will be on UStream at 10 a.m. 
PDT (1 p.m. EDT) July 20 at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-educational 

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov 
	
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