NASA Announces Members of the Augustine Panel

NASA has formally announced the members of the Augustine panel on options for NASA’s human space flight program. The list includes all of those identified by the Orlando Sentinel’s Write Stuff blog over the weekend, plus one more — Charlie Kennel, chair of the NRC’s Space Studies Board and a distinguished scientist whose career spans astrophysics, solar and space physics, and earth science. The first meeting will be held on June 17 from 9:00-5:00 EDT at the Carnegie Institution, 1530 P Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The meeting is open to the public up to the seating capacity of the room.

The 10 members of the panel are:

• Norman Augustine (chair), Lockheed Martin (Ret.)
• Wanda Austin, President, Aerospace Corporation
• Bohdan Bejmuk, Constellation program Standing Review Board chair and former manager of Boeing’s Space Shuttle and Sea Launch programs
• Leroy Chiao, former astronaut, Consultant
• Christopher Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs, Princeton
• Edward Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT
• Jeffrey Greason, co-founder and CEO, XCOR Aerospace, and vice-chair, Personal Spaceflight Federation
• Charles Kennel, chair, NRC Space Studies Board and director emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Gen. Lester Lyles (USAF, Ret.), chair, NRC Committee on Rationale and Goals for the U.S. Civil Space Program
• Sally Ride, former astronaut, CEO Sally Ride Science