Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Discussion Of The Fine Points Of The Augustine Report To Be Led
By Committee Member Edward Crawley
April 12, 2011 will mark 50 years of human space exploration.
As NASA prepares to retire the Shuttle program, the U.S. Human
Spaceflight Plans Committee asked the question, "What's next?"
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, at NASA's Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Edward Crawley, a committee member will present, "The
Augustine Report, Rationale and Retrospective" at 1400 in the Reid
Conference Center. The White House and NASA chartered the
committee, chaired by Norm Augustine, in the summer of 2009. As a
committee member, Crawley had to identify and evaluate options for
the future of the human space exploration program. On Tuesday
evening, Crawley will present a similar talk for the general public
at 1930 at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton.
The evening presentation is free and no reservations are
required.
Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), examined questions related to
astronauts leaving low-Earth orbit and exploring the solar system,
expansion of human civilization into space, benefits of exploration
to the U.S., human safety in space, and resources available to make
it all happen. Crawley will review the goals, decision criteria,
options and alternatives defined by the Augustine Committee, and
the reasoning behind them.
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A professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering
systems, Crawley has undergraduate and doctoral degrees in
aerospace engineering from MIT. He was chairman of the NASA
Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee, a member of
the NASA Advisory Committee, and received a NASA Public Service
Medal. In 1993, he was a member of the Presidential Advisory
Committee on the Space Station Redesign. He has served on numerous
committees of the National Research Council, and recently
co-chaired the committee reviewing the NASA Exploration Technology
Development Program. He is a member of the Committee on Science,
Engineering and Public Policy of the National Academies.
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