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The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) engages the United States' science community, sponsors scientific research, and develops and deploys satellites and probes in collaboration with NASA's partners around the world to answer fundamental questions requiring the view from and into space.
From October 2016 [2] until the end of 2022, he was the longest continually running Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Prior to this, he was Professor of Space Science and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan , where he helped found the Center for Entrepreneurship.
Official NASA bio; Colleen Hartman on C-SPAN on June 23, 2003 talking about the unmanned U.S. mission to Mars and science experiments to be conducted. Goodbye Galileo - What do you do with a dying space probe? That was the question facing Dr. Colleen Hartman '77 at NASA in the summer of 2003 - Pomona College Magazine, Spring 2004, Volume 40, No. 3
After retiring from NASA in 2009, he served as the deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. In January 2012, he returned to NASA and served as associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). [2] Grunsfeld announced his retirement from NASA in April 2016. [3]
A variety of large-scale medical studies are being conducted in space by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Prominent among these is the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Study, in which astronauts (including former ISS Commanders Leroy Chiao and Gennady Padalka) perform ultrasound scans under the guidance of remote experts to diagnose and potentially treat ...
The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) is one of five mission directorates within NASA, the other four being the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, the Space Operations Mission Directorate, the Science Mission Directorate, and the Space Technology Mission Directorate. [1]
The Planetary Missions Program Office is a division of NASA headquartered at the Marshall Space Flight Center, formed by the agency's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). ). Succeeding the Discovery and New Frontiers Program Office, it was established in 2014 to manage the Discovery and New Frontiers programs of low and medium-cost missions by third-party institutions, and the Solar System ...
G. Scott Hubbard (born December 27, 1948) is a physicist who has been engaged in space-related research as well as program, project and executive management for more than 45 years including 20 years with NASA, culminating as director of NASA's Ames Research Center.