Who's Who: Aerospace
Chuck Taylor, Principal Investigator, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Chuck Taylor is principal investigator of in-space propulsion and space power generation within the Game Changing Development Program. He is responsible for a...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Lora Koenig, Glaciologist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Dr. Lora Koenig, an expert in remote sensing of ice sheets and snow, provided scientific input for the design of the Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Huy Tran, Deputy Director, Aeronautics Directorate, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Huy Tran is the Deputy Director of the Aeronautics Directorate that performs research in air traffic management, advanced aircraft design, and...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Rob Mueller, Lead Senior Technologist, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Rob Mueller is the Lead Senior Technologist for the RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) project, as well as all Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Human Robotics...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Andrew Watson, Senior Scientist for Vision Research, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Dr. Andrew Watson works on models of human vision and applies them to visual technology. The Founder and Editor in Chief of the Journal of...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Bob Reisse, ALHAT Project Manager, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.
Bob Reisse coordinates the design and testing of ALHAT (Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology) sensors. In December, ALHAT instruments were melded to HUEY...
Who's Who: Aerospace
David Mitchell, MAVEN Project Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
David Mitchell is the project manager of the MAVEN mission, which will examine environmental changes on Mars. MAVEN instruments will look beyond the planet's...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Chuck Jorgensen, Chief Scientist for Neuro Engineering, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Chuck Jorgensen, Chief Scientist for the Neuro Engineering Lab at NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, CA, currently studies...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Carlos Calle, Lead Scientist, Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Dr. Carlos Calle, lead scientist in Kennedy Space Center’s Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab, is developing instrumentation that...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Greg Chavers, Test Lead, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
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,...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Neil Cheatwood, IRVE-3 Principal Investigator, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Neil Cheatwood is principal investigator of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3). In July, the IRVE-3 team tested an inflatable heat...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Steve Gaddis, Program Director for NASA Space Technology's Game Changing Development Office, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Steve Gaddis runs the newly created Game Changing Technology Development Program Office. Gaddis leads the...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Marcia Domack and John Wagner, Engineers, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Marcia Domack and John Wagner, engineers in the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at NASA Langley Research Center, have worked with Boston-based metal...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Sandeep Yayathi, Robotics Engineer, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
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,...
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
Stephen Merkowitz, Project Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
NASA is helping to lead an international effort to upgrade the systems that supply crucial location information and earth science measurements. Stephen...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Michael Gazarik, Director of Space Technology Programs, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC
As NASA’s Director of Space Technology Programs, Michael Gazarik contributes to the development of technology that can be applied to NASA’s...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Donald Wegel, Lead Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Bruce Wielicki, Senior Earth Scientist, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Dr. Bruce Wielicki, senior Earth scientist within the Science Directorate at Langley Research Center, works as lead of the Climate Absolute Radiance and...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Sam Ortega, Program Manager, NASA Centennial Challenges, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Sam Ortega, manager of the NASA Centennial Challenges Program, leads progressive aerospace initiatives, encouraging the participation of...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Robert Okojie, Research Electronics Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland OH
Dr. Robert Okojie, Research Electronics Engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center, develops harsh-environment microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)....
Who's Who: Aerospace
William Allen, Senior Engineer, Spacecraft Mechanical Engineering Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
William Allen, senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the mechanical systems design lead on the Mars Science...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Phil McAlister, Acting Director of Commercial Spaceflight Development, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Phil McAlister, acting director of commercial spaceflight development, oversees the efforts of the Commercial Crew Development and Cargo...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Lin Chambers, Project Scientist, NASA Langley Science Directorate, Hampton, VA
Dr. Lin Chambers is Project Scientist in the Innovations in Global Climate Change Education program. The congressionally mandated project, initiated in 2008,...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Leland D. Melvin, Associate Administrator for Education, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
As NASA’s associate administrator for education, Leland Melvin is responsible for the development and implementation of the agency's education...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Michael Ryschkewitsch, Chief Engineer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
As NASA's Chief Engineer, Michael Ryschkewitsch is responsible for the overall review and technical readiness of all NASA programs.
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
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...
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
Dr. Dale P. Cruikshank, Astronomer and Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Dale P. Cruikshank is an astronomer and planetary scientist in the Astrophysics Branch at Ames Research Center. His research specialties...
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