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Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 71-77

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From page 71...
... She trained in Russia on the Soyuz spacecraft and was on the first space shuttle flight to dock with the Russian Mir Space Station. She has served as the payload commander on two flights: a Spacelab mission dedicated to microgravity research, the United States Microgravity Laboratory, and on the eighth shuttle 7
From page 72...
... Prior to joining Microcosm, he was the chief engineer and senior engineering manager of Aerojet in Sacramento, California. He has been involved in the design, development, and flight qualification of launch vehicles and spacecraft subsystems and systems.
From page 73...
... Mr. Chase has written more than 30 technical papers on advanced space transportation systems, military space planes, single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicles, orbital transfer vehicles, technology readiness assessment, and advanced propulsion systems.
From page 74...
... Dr. Hurtado has published many technical papers and holds the following patents: Cooperative System and Method Using Mobile Robots for Testing a Cooperative Search Controller, Distributed Optimization System and Method, and Cooperating Mobile Robots.
From page 75...
... He is a member of the board of trustees for the University Space Research Association, a member of the Science Council for the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, and a charter member of the AIAA Space Exploration Program Committee. Douglas Mehoke is the assistant group supervisor and advanced technology manager in the Space Department Mechanical Design Group and supervisor of the Thermal Design Section at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)
From page 76...
... He is an author or coauthor of more than 100 publications or presentations in journals, books, technical reports, or conference proceedings and has served on numerous committees, including the NRC Committee on Wright Centers of Innovation, the NRC Review Committee for NASA's Low Emission Advanced Propulsion, the FreedomCAR Fuel Cell Tech Team, the ASME Fuel Cell Power Systems Committee, the International Energy Agency Advanced Fuel Cells for Transportation, and the U.S. DOE's Depleted Uranium R&D Uses Advisory Panel.
From page 77...
... Following his retirement from NASA, Dr. Walberg taught at the NASA/George Washington University Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences and then at North Carolina State University, where he was the director of the Mars Mission Research Center in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.


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