Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) (Keith Gendreau)
Keith Gendreau received his PhD in astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, working on X-ray charge-coupled devices and the cosmic X-ray background with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics mission. He has been at Goddard Space Flight Center since 1995 and was the calibration lead on the X-ray spectrometer instrument on the ASTRO-E mission. Mr. Gendreau was the NASA scientist on the joint NASA–DARPA X-ray pulsar source–based navigation and timing study, and he is currently the principal investigator of the X-ray Advanced Concepts Test Bed sounding rocket and the Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology study.
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