FORGING THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE
THE NEXT 50 YEARS

December 7, 2007
National Space Science and Technology Center
Huntsville, AL

PANEL: WHERE HAVE WE BEEN IN SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION?

Room 4078, National Space Science and Technology Center at Cramer Hall, UAH
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Mr. Ed Buckbee, Retired NASA Public Affairs, Director Emeritus U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Author (Panel Moderator)
Dr. Charles Chappell, Retired NASA MSFC Associate Director for Science, Vanderbilt University Director of Science and Research Communications. Presentation: “Spacelab and Atlas”

Dr. Jan Davis, Retired NASA Astronaut, VP and Deputy General Manager Jacobs. Presentation: “Space Shuttle and Space Station”
Dr. Owen Garriott, Retired NASA Astronaut, Apollo Skylab, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Educator and Explorer. Presentation: “First US Space Station”
Mr. James Odom, Retired NASA MSFC Project Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope and Associate Administrator for Space Station Freedom, Consultant for SAIC. Presentation: “The ‘Great’ Great Observatory – the Hubble Space Telescope”
Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Retired NASA MSFC Associate Director for Science, Chief Scientist of the Von Braun Team. Presentation: “Explorer I and Apollo Science Activities”

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2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

PANEL: WHERE ARE WE GOING IN SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION?

Room 4078, National Space Science and Technology Center at Cramer Hall, UAH
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Dr. Melissa McGrath, Chief Scientist, NSSTC (Panel Moderator)
Mr. Larry Capps, CEO U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Presentation: “Exciting the Next Generation of Space Explorers and Pioneers”
Dr. Barbara Cohen, NASA MSFC Lunar Scientist. Presentation: “A New Era of Lunar Science”
Dr. John M. Horack, Director, NASA MSFC Science and Mission Systems Office. Presentation: “MSFC Mission Enabling Science and Technology Activities”
Mr. Todd A. May, Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs, NASA Science Mission Directorate. Presentation: “NASA Overview of Future Science and Exploration Activities”
Dr. Martin C. Weisskopf, Project Scientist, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA MSFC. Presentation: “Future Path of Astrophysics”

LECTURE: SCIENCE GOES TO THE MOON AND PLANETS:
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS SINCE THE IGY

US Space and Rocket Center, Education Center Complex
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Lecturer: Dr. Wesley Huntress
Director Emeritus, Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution

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Sponsored by: The National Academies NASA Boeing Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman Orbital Sciences Corporation ATK Ball Aerospace Aerospace Corporation

Co-sponsored by: American Astronautical Society American Astronomical Society American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics COSPAR International Space University National Space Society Planetary Society

Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.

Wesley Huntress is director emeritus of the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory. He joined the Institution’s staff in 1998 following a long career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA Headquarters.

Dr. Huntress began his career at JPL as a National Research Council Associate, and was then hired as a research scientist specializing in ion chemistry and planetary atmospheres. While at JPL, he was an investigator on the Giotto mission to Halley's Comet and was the pre-project scientist for the Cassini mission to Saturn. His research group gained international recognition for their pioneering studies of chemical evolution in interstellar clouds, comets and planetary atmospheres. In addition, he assumed a number of line and research program management assignments.

Dr. Huntress also served as a visiting professor of cosmochemistry in the Department of Planetary Science and Geophysics at Caltech prior to accepting a two-year detail as special assistant to the director of NASA’s Earth Science and Applications Division that led to his appointment as the director of the Solar System Exploration Division, and later as NASA associate administrator for Space Sciences. In the latter position, he was a key architect of the revitalization of the planetary exploration program and of NASA's new Origins program. Some of the planetary programs that Dr. Huntress initiated while there include the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Mars Surveyor Program for long-term exploration of Mars, the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, and the Discovery program of low-cost planetary missions

Biography source:
Carnegie Institution of Washington

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