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Who's Who: Materials
Dr. Carlos Calle, lead scientist in Kennedy Space Center’s Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab, is developing instrumentation that addresses...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Greg Chavers, test lead at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, helped to design the “Mighty Eagle” robotic prototype lander. The vehicle,...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Neil Cheatwood is principal investigator of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3). In July, the IRVE-3 team tested an inflatable heat...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Steve Gaddis runs the newly created Game Changing Technology Development Program Office. Gaddis leads the...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Marcia Domack and John Wagner, engineers in the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at NASA Langley Research Center, have worked with Boston-based metal...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
NASA robotics engineer Sandeep Yayathi works on Robonaut 2, or R2, a humanoid robot built and designed at Johnson Space Center in Houston. As a robotics engineer,...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Who's Who at NASA: Jack Vieira, Range Project Manager
In March of 2012, NASA successfully launched five rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was part of NASA's Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment, or ATREX, which will help scientists better understand the jet stream. Jack Vieira, range project manager for the ATREX...
Who's Who: Aerospace
NASA is helping to lead an international effort to upgrade the systems that supply crucial location information and earth science measurements. Stephen...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
As NASA’s Director of Space Technology Programs, Michael Gazarik contributes to the development of technology that can be applied to NASA’s exploration...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland are in the early stages of designing a sample-collecting comet harpoon. NASA Goddard’s...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Bruce Wielicki, senior Earth scientist within the Science Directorate at Langley Research Center, works as lead of the Climate Absolute Radiance and...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Sam Ortega, manager of the NASA Centennial Challenges Program, leads progressive aerospace initiatives, encouraging the participation of...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Robert Okojie, Research Electronics Engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center, develops harsh-environment microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)....
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Who's Who: Aerospace
William Allen, senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the mechanical systems design lead on the Mars Science...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Phil McAlister, acting director of commercial spaceflight development, oversees the efforts of the Commercial Crew Development and Cargo...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Lin Chambers is Project Scientist in the Innovations in Global Climate Change Education program. The congressionally mandated project, initiated in 2008,...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
As NASA’s associate administrator for education, Leland Melvin is responsible for the development and implementation of the agency's education programs...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
As NASA's Chief Engineer, Michael Ryschkewitsch is responsible for the overall review and technical readiness of all NASA programs.
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Waleed Abdalati, on January 3rd of this year, became NASA’s chief scientist. He will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science...
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Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
Chad R. Frost, Intelligent Systems Division’s Area Lead for Autonomous Systems and Robotics, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Chad R. Frost supervises the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) technical area in Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division. ASR staff develops advanced automation and control technologies to...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dale P. Cruikshank is an astronomer and planetary scientist in the Astrophysics Branch at Ames Research Center. His research specialties...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Jacqueline Quinn is an environmental engineer with NASA’s Surface Systems Office at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 2005,...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Jim Green began his NASA career in 1980 at Marshall Space Flight Center’s Magnetospheric Physics Branch where he developed and managed the Space...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Steven Schmidt joined NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in 1994 as a project engineer and manager on programs such as the X-33, X-38, X-43A, F-15 Advanced...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
After a brief career teaching at University College London in the U.K., Dr. Robert Youngquist returned to the U.S. and went to work as a contractor at...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
While pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace guidance, navigation, and control theory at UT Austin, Terry Hill got an opportunity to...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
In 2001, NASA engineer Michael Ewert developed and patented a unique solar-powered vapor-compression refrigeration system that...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Jaiwon Shin emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 23, and in 1989, he joined NASA’s Glenn...
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Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. William Ko joined NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in 1977 after receiving a PhD in aeronautics from California...
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