G. Scott Hubbard has been an innovator and leader in science, technology, and management for more than thirty years, including twenty years with NASA. He currently is a professor in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Hubbard was the director of Ames Research Center. In 2003 he […]
Joseph A. Dezio came to the Explorers Program as the deputy program manager in November 2001 to support the numerous Explorer missions’ activities and principal investigators. Since arriving at the Explorers Program Office, he has supported the successful launches of the Swift, Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, Aeronomy of Ice in […]
The SMD program scientist (PS) is the senior NASA scientist responsible for a flight program or project’s science content to carry out an SMD science investigation. The PS is SMD’s interface with the project scientist or the principal investigator (PI) for an Announcement of Opportunity selected mission. The PS monitors science management program execution and […]
Performing to committed cost has forever been a space and Earth science goal, along with attaining technical and scientific goals. Emphasis on the cost element, however, has greatly increased over the past decade. This includes enhanced external oversight of NASA’s cost performance by the Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budget, and several Hill […]
Systems engineering plays a critical role in space-mission development and is the right hand of the PI and the PM. He or she provides the technical expertise for the design, integration, and verification of the platform and supporting systems to meet the mission’s objectives in an affordable manner, and within an acceptable level of risk. […]
John Mather will discuss the challenges of organizing and running two teams: the COBE science team and the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) science team. COBE’s three instruments presented unique challenges. Each instrument had its own principal investigator (PI), so there were different executive styles, which will be compared. Also, the Science Working Group […]
After completing his PhD at Cornell University in 1985, Robert Pfaff joined the Goddard Space Flight Center, where is presently a space scientist in the Space Weather Laboratory in the Heliophysics Division. With more than twenty-five years of experience working with experimental electric field research at Goddard, he leads a team involved in all aspects […]
Paul Hertz is chief scientist for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD). He manages Directorate-level science activities, including the solicitation, evaluation, and selection process for SMD; the SMD Science Management Council; and SMD’s research policies and procedures. He joined the NASA Office of Space Science as a senior scientist in 2000. He later served as theme […]
The Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was a small satellite carrying a cryogenically cooled infrared telescope designed to study starburst galaxies—vast clouds of molecular gas cradling the sites of newborn stars. Developed under NASA’s Small Explorer Program, WIRE was intended to have a four-month primary mission. WIRE was launched on a three-stage Pegasus XL vehicle released […]
