NRC Fills Out Committee Slate for Human Spaceflight Study
The National Research Council (NRC) has released the slate of committee members for its congressionally-requested study on the future of the human spaceflight program. The co-chairs of the study, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and Cornell space scientist Jonathan Lunine, were announced earlier.
Joining Perry and Lunine are the following committee members:
- Dr. Bernard Burke, MIT
- Gen. (Ret.) James “Hoss” Cartwright, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar, Dittmar Associates, Inc.
- Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund, George Washington University
- Dr. James Jackson, University of Michigan
- Mr. Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center
- Dr. Frankin Martin, Martin Consulting Inc.
- Dr. David C. Mowery, University of California, Berkeley
- Mr. Bryan O’Connor, independent consultant
- Dr. Stanley Presser, University of Maryland, College Park
- Dr. Helen R. Quinn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Dr. Asif A. Siddiqi, Fordham University
- Dr. John C. Sommerer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
- Dr. Roger Tourangeau, Westat, Inc.
- Ms. Ariel Waldmanm, Spacehack Org.
Biographies are on the NRC’s website, which also states that the first meeting of the committee will be on December 19, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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