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Public Agendas for Meetings
FIRST MEETING
KECK CENTER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES, WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 20, 2009
Open Session
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9:15 am |
Welcome, Introductions, Discussion of the Committee’s Task |
Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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9:30 am |
Overview of the NASA Suborbital Program |
Cheryl Yuhas, Program Executive, Earth Science and Heliophysics Divisions, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate (SMD) |
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10:20 am |
Discussion |
Committee |
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11:00 am |
NASA Sounding Rocket Program |
Program Manager: Phil Eberspeaker, NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) Program Scientist: Wilt Sanders (for Mary Mellott), NASA HQ/SMD/Heliophysics |
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12:00 pm |
Working Lunch—Discussion |
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1:00 pm |
NASA Scientific Balloon Program |
Program Manager: Dave Pierce, NASA WFF Program Scientist: W. Vernon Jones, NASA HQ/SMD/Astrophysics |
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2:00 pm |
NASA Airborne Science Program |
Program Manager/Executive: Andrew Roberts, NASA HQ/SMD/Earth Science Program Scientist: Jack Kaye, NASA HQ/SMD/Earth Science |
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3:15 pm |
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) |
Program Executive: Raynor Taylor, NASA HQ/SMD/Astrophysics Program Scientist: Paul Hertz, NASA SMD |
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4:15 pm |
Discussion with Speakers |
Committee |
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5:30 pm |
Working Reception and Dinner—Discussion of Presentations |
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8:00 pm |
Adjourn for the Day |
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May 21, 2009
Open Session
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8:00 am |
Working Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Introductions, Review the Previous Day’s Presentations and the Day’s Agenda |
Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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9:00 am |
Discussion |
Committee |
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10:15 am |
Findings and Recommendations of the Report Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration |
David C. Black, Universities Space Research Association, via telecon |
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11:15 am |
Discussion |
Committee |
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12:00 pm |
Working Lunch—Discuss Presentations |
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SECOND MEETING
LASP, BOULDER, COLORADO
August 19, 2009
Open Session
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8:40 am |
Welcome from LASP |
Dan Baker, LASP |
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8:50 am |
Introductions, Opening Remarks, Discussion of the Agenda, and Procedures for the Panel Sessions |
Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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9:00 am |
View from Congressional Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
Richard M. Obermann, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, House Science and Technology Committee |
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9:20 am |
Panel Discussion on Sounding Rocket Research |
Thomas Woods, LASP Walter M. Harris, University of Washington Dan McCammon and Ken Nordsieck, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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11:00 am |
Panel Discussion on SOFIA |
Dan Lester, University of Texas Eric Becklin, UCLA Andrew Harris, University of Maryland |
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Noon |
Working Lunch |
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12:45 pm |
Panel Discussion on Airborne Research |
Rick Shetter, Director of the National Suborbital Education and Research Center at the University of North Dakota O. Brian Toon, University of Colorado, Boulder Jim Elkins, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder |
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2:30 pm |
Panel discussion on Balloon Research |
Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland John Ruhl, Case Western Reserve University Jim Elkins, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder Shaul Hanany, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
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3:45 pm |
Use of Commercial Suborbital Facilities |
Alan Stern, SwRI Ken Davidian, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Bretton Alexander, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and John Gedmark, Executive Director |
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4:45 pm |
General Discussion |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn for the Day |
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August 20, 2009
Open Session
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8:45 am |
Convene, Review Agenda for the Day |
Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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9:00 am |
Discuss Panel Presentations |
Committee |
Closed Session
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5:00 pm |
Meeting Adjourns |
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THIRD MEETING
SEPTEMBER 23-25, 2009
BECKMAN CENTER, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
September 23, 2009
Closed Session
September 24, 2009
Open Session
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8:30 am |
Convene |
Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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8:35 am |
Panel Discussion: Education and Public Out-reach (EPO) and Suborbital Research |
Erika Wagner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
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9:00 am |
Panel Discussion: Suborbital Life Science Research |
Larry Young and Erika Wagner, MIT Mark Shelhamer, Johns Hopkins University |
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9:30 am |
Panel Discussion: Suborbital Physical Science Research |
John Pojman, Louisiana State University Steve Collicott, Purdue University Josh Colwell, University of Central Florida |
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10:00 am |
Panel Discussion: Suborbital Hypervelocity Research |
Richard Miles, Princeton University |
Closed Session
September 25, 2009
Closed Session
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1:00 pm |
Meeting Adjourns |
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