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Appendix F: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 115-120

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... Space System Award, the von Karman Lectureship, the National Space Club Astronauts Engineer Award, the American Astronautical Society's Space Flight Award, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Lifetime Achievement Award. He held senior project positions on many of the Mariner missions to Mars and Venus and in 1970 became project manager of Mariner 6 and 7.
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From page 116...
... Examples include novel hybrid propulsion for applications such as a Mars Ascent Vehicle and drilling techniques for a future Mars sample return mission. He served as NASA's first Mars program director and successfully restructured the entire Mars program in the wake of mission failures.
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From page 117...
... Levy served in various capacities at the University of Arizona, including as dean of the College of Science, head of the Planetary Science Department, director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and professor of Planetary Science. He has won multiple awards including the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Scientist Award by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From page 118...
... Prior to this he was the manager of Exploration Programs and led all LaRC space exploration research and development activities supporting the agency's Aerospace Technology, Human Exploration, and Development of Space and Space Science Enterprises. At the office of space science he served as program manager for the Discovery Program, and at the Space Station Freedom program operations he served as special assistant to the deputy director.
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... He has supported the NASA planetary protection program as principal investigator, program manager, and consultant. He has worked with all the NASA planetary protection officers, lending his expertise to the development and definition of planetary protection policy and requirements for outbound and inbound planetary missions; providing advice to international partners on requirements and methods of implementation; contributing to strategic planning and programmatic development; helping to guide NASA efforts in planetary protection-related new technology development; and monitoring planetary protection–related activities of ongoing flight projects.
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... Her academic research focuses on the importance of how collegiate-level physics and other STEM courses can play a critical role in enhancing scientific literacy and shape overall attitudes toward space policy, particularly within the millennial population.
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