Wed, Nov 30, 2005
Hopes To Reconcile Agency's Current Needs With Future
Plans
Spurred by the hope
that NASA can find a way to balance its present needs in space with
the agency's vision for the future, two former Apollo astronauts
and a former space shuttle astronaut joined 22 other experts
Tuesday in the first meeting of the newly restructured NASA
Advisory Council, a group of eminent US citizens organized to
provide guidance and policy advice to the administrator of
America's space agency.
Chaired by former Senator and Apollo astronaut Harrison H. "Jack"
Schmitt, the NASA Advisory Council also includes former Apollo 11
astronaut Neil Armstrong. Other experts include Gen. Lester L.
Lyles, USAF (Ret.), former commander, Air Force Materiel Command,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Dr. Charles F. Kennel,
director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
"I am looking forward to working closely with NASA Administrator
Michael Griffin and NASA senior management as they address the
exciting challenges facing the agency as it prepares for its next
50 years," Schmitt said. "These challenges include returning the
space shuttle safely to flight, completing the International Space
Station, developing a new crew exploration vehicle and returning
humans to the surface of the moon and then on to Mars."
The NASA Advisory Council was restructured to meet agency needs
as it implements the Vision for Space Exploration, outlined by
President Bush two years ago to take astronauts back to the moon
and on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. A number
of previously-chartered standing committees are incorporated into
the restructured council.
According to NASA, the full membership of the council
includes:
- Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF (Ret.) Aerospace
Consultant
- Dr. Juan J. Alonso, Department of Aeronautics &
Astronautics Stanford University
- Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 Astronaut
- Dr. Raymond S. Colladay, Chair Aeronautics and Space
Engineering Board, National Research Council
- Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, Chair Space Studies Board, National
Research Council
- Robert M. Hanisee, Trust Company of the West
- Capt. Frederick H. Hauck, USN (Ret.), Former Space Shuttle
Astronaut
- Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., Director Geophysical Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Hon. Kay Coles James, Consultant Former Director, Office of
Personnel Management
- Dr. Stephen I. Katz, Director National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of
Health
- Dr. Charles F. Kennel, Director Scripps Institute of
Oceanography
- Dr. Gerald L. Kulcinski, Associate Dean, Research University of
Wisconsin-Madison
- Dr. Eugene H. Levy, Professor of Physics & Astronomy Rice
University
- Dr. John M. Logsdon, Director Space Policy Institute, George
Washington University
- Dr. David Longnecker, Chair Committee on Aerospace Medicine and
the Medicine of Extreme Environments, Institute of Medicine
- Gen. Lester L. Lyles, USAF (Ret.), The Lyles Group, Former
Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio
- Wendell Maddox, President and Chief Executive Officer ION
Corporation
- Hon. Edward R. McPherson, Under Secretary of Education
- Dr. R. James Milgram, Professor Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University
- Hon. Michael Montelongo, Senior Vice President, Strategic
Marketing Sodexho Inc.
- Dr. Mark S. Robinson, Research Associate Professor Department
of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University
- Howard J. Stanislawski, Attorney Sidley, Austin, Brown &
Wood, LLP
- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Frederick P. Rose, Director, Hayden
Planetarium American Museum of Natural History
The council will include subject matter experts in five key
areas: exploration, science, aeronautics, human capital, and audit
and finance. It also includes three ex-officio members from the
National Research Council's Space Studies Board, Aeronautics and
Space Engineering Board, and the Institute of Medicine.
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