NASA Signs Scientific and Education Agreements with Brazil

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June 30, 2015

RELEASE 15-141

NASA Signs Scientific and Education Agreements with Brazil

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) President
Jose Raimundo Braga Coelho have signed agreements to further research into
heliophysics and space weather and to enhance global climate study and
educational opportunities.

"I am delighted to expand our relationship with our long time exploration
partner Brazil through these agreements," Bolden said. 'This partnership
encompasses critical work not only to understand our planet, but also to help
develop the leaders of tomorrow, and we look forward to many positive
outcomes."

'Brazil has an incredibly talented group of researchers and young people
that are eager to participate in and enrich the unique scientific and
educational opportunities that NASA affords," Coelho said. 'I am happy
that the NASA-Brazil partnership continues to grow through these activities
that promise to be fruitful for our two agencies and nations."

Building on the Framework Agreement between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil on
Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the two space agencies
finalized an implementing arrangement that will enable Brazil to acquire and
process space weather data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission. In
addition, the agreement enables Brazilian participation in missions studying
the sun's impacts on Earth's space environment such as the Magnetospheric
Multiscale mission.

Brazil also will now be the newest partner in the Global Learning and
Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program. The environmental
science and education program brings together teachers, students and
scientists to use Earth and space-based observations to study the global
environment and promotes understanding of our planet as a system.

NASA and AEB also will partner to increase opportunities for Brazilian
undergraduate and graduate students to participate in an internship at a NASA
center through the NASA International Internship Program. The new agreement,
signed separately by NASA and AEB on June 18 will provide a unique
educational experience for Brazilian students while providing U.S. students
an opportunity to work on international teams.

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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