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COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE
Steering Group
JOHN A. ARMSTRONG,
IBM Corporation (retired),
Chair
ANTHONY W. ENGLAND,
University of Michigan
DANIEL J. FINK,
D.J. Fink Associates, Inc.
URSULA W. GOODENOUGH,
Washington University
JOHN M. HEDGEPETH,
Digisim Corporation
JEANNE E. PEMBERTON,
University of Arizona
WILLIAM PRESS,
Harvard College Observatory
P. BUFORD PRICE,
University of California, Berkeley
ROLAND W. SCHMITT,
Clifton Park, New York
GUYFORD STEVER,
Washington, D.C.
JAMES WYNGAARDEN,
Washington, D.C.
MARC S. ALLEN, Study Director
BETTY C. GUYOT, Administrative Officer
CARMELA J. CHAMBERLAIN, Senior Project Assistant
NATHANIEL B. COHEN, Consultant
Task Group on Alternative Organizations
DANIEL J. FINK,
D.J. Fink Associates, Inc.,
Chair
MARTIN BLUME,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
JOHN F. CASSIDY,
United Technologies Research Center
ROBERT S. COOPER,
Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation
GERALD P. DINNEEN,
National Academy of Engineering
HAROLD B. FINGER,
Potomac, Maryland
NOEL W. HINNERS,
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
THOMAS E. MALONE,
Potomac, Maryland
NORINE E. NOONAN,
Florida Institute of Technology
JAMES R. THOMPSON, jr.,
Orbital Sciences Corporation
ARTHUR B.C. WALKER,
Stanford University
SIDNEY C. WOLFF,
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
RICHARD C. HART, Senior Project Officer
CARMELA J. CHAMBERLAIN, Senior Project Assistant
ERIN C. HATCH, Research Assistant
NATHANIEL B. COHEN, Consultant
Task Group on Research Prioritization
ROLAND W. SCHMITT,
Clifton Park, New York,
Chair
WILLIAM F. BRINKMAN,
AT&T Bell Laboratories
LARRY W. ESPOSITO,
University of Colorado
DAVID J. McCOMAS,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
CHRISTOPHER F. McKEE,
University of California, Berkeley
MORTON B. PANISH,
Springfield, New Jersey
CARLÉ M. PIETERS,
Brown University
RUDI SCHMID,
University of California, San Francisco
EUGENE B. SKOLNIKOFF,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RICHARD C. HART, Senior Project Officer
CARMELA J. CHAMBERLAIN, Senior Project Assistant
ERIN C. HATCH, Research Assistant
NATHANIEL B. COHEN, Consultant
Task Group on Technology
ANTHONY W. ENGLAND,
University of Michigan,
Co-chair
JOHN M. HEDGEPETH,
Digisim Corporation,
Co-chair
JOSEPH P. ALLEN,
Space Industries International, Inc.
ROBERT P. CAREN,
Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)
JOHN J. DONEGAN,
U.S. Navy (retired)
SIMON OSTRACH,
Case Western Reserve University
JUDITH PIPHER,
University of Rochester
ALFRED SCHOCK,
Orbital Sciences Corporation
HENRY PLOTKIN,
NASA (retired),
Technical Advisor
NOEL ELDRIDGE, Project Officer
CARMELA J. CHAMBERLAIN, Senior Project Assistant
SPACE STUDIES BOARD
CLAUDE R. CANIZARES
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Chair
JOHN A. ARMSTRONG
IBM Corporation (retired)
LAWRENCE BOGORAD
Harvard University
JOSEPH A. BURNS *
Cornell University
JOHN J. DONEGAN
U.S. Navy (retired)
ANTHONY W. ENGLAND
University of Michigan
DANIEL J. FINK
D.J. Fink Associates, Inc.
MARTIN E. GLICKSMAN
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RONALD GREELEY
Arizona State University
BILL GREEN former member,
U.S. House of Representatives
HAROLD J. GUY *
University of California, San Diego
NOEL W. HINNERS
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
JANET G. LUHMANN
University of California, Berkeley
JOHN H. McELROY
University of Texas, Arlington
ROBERTA BALSTAD MILLER
Consortium for International Earth Sciences Information Network
BERRIEN MOORE III
University of New Hampshire
MARY JANE OSBORN
University of Connecticut Health Center
SIMON OSTRACH
Case Western Reserve University
CARLÉ M. PIETERS
Brown University
JUDITH PIPHER *
University of Rochester
MARCIA J. RIEKE
University of Arizona
ROLAND SCHMITT
Clifton Park, New York
JOHN A. SIMPSON
University of Chicago
ARTHUR B.C. WALKER Jr., *
Stanford University
MARC S. ALLEN Director
* Former member. |
COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS
ROBERT J. HERMANN
United Technologies Corporation,
Chair
STEPHEN L. ADLER
Institute for Advanced Study
PETER M. BANKS
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
SYLVIA T. CEYER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L. LOUIS HEGEDUS
W.R. Grace and Co.
JOHN E. HOPCROFT
Cornell University
RHONDA J. HUGHES
Bryn Mawr College
SHIRLEY A. JACKSON
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
KENNETH I. KELLERMANN
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
KEN KENNEDY
Rice University
HANS MARK
University of Texas, Austin
THOMAS A. PRINCE
California Institute of Technology
JEROME SACKS
National Institute for Statistical Sciences
L.E. SCRIVEN
University of Minnesota
LEON T. SILVER
California Institute of Technology
CHARLES P. SLICHTER
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ALVIN W. TRIVELPIECE
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
SHMUEL WINOGRAD
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
CHARLES A. ZRAKET
The MITRE Corporation (retired)
NORMAN METZGER Executive Director