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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.
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
Work in the Heliophysics Science Division considers space phenomena relating to the sun, and includes robotic missions and satellites. [23] [24] The deputy director is Margaret Luce. [25] Fox was appointed the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate on February 27, 2023, making her the organization's Head of Science. [26]
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP) is a series of missions focused on studying the Sun-Earth system. It is part of NASA 's Heliophysics Science Division within the Science Mission Directorate .
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 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.
NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program was established in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission critical software. NASA's IV&V Program was founded under the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) as a direct result of ...