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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Bios
Pages 43-48

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... He has more than 30 years of experience conducting experiments in NASA's low-gravity facilities, such as drop towers, parabolic-flight aircraft, the space shuttle, and the International Space Station and received the NASA Astronauts' Personal Achievement Award for his contributions to the success of human spaceflight. He is currently the president of the Space Resources Roundtable, an international organization focused on lunar, asteroidal, and planetary resources studies.
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From page 44...
... He has served on numerous National Academies' committees, including the Committee to Review the Report of the NASA Planetary Protection Independent Review Board and the Committee to Review Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes.
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... Dr. Levy has served on various committees at the National Academies, including the Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes, the Committee for US-USSR Workshop on Planetary Sciences, the Panel on Mars Sample Return, and the Planetary and Lunar Exploration Task Group.
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... She has worked at Airbus Space Propulsion in engine nozzle research and development and at NASA Ames Research Center as a planetary scientist and has studied a diverse variety of extreme environments, including the High Arctic, the Sahara Desert in Egypt, and the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Most recently she was at SpaceX as a propulsion systems responsible engineer for the vertical takeoff and landing F9R-Dev vehicle, vehicle responsible engineer for internal research and the reusability program, and senior Mars development engineer working on mission architecture and vehicle design for the Starship vehicle and its planetary missions.
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... Dr. Vick-Majors served on the National Academies Committee to Review the Report of the NASA Independent Review Board and participated in a workshop of experts convened by the Division on Earth and Life Studies on Understanding and Responding to Global Health Security Risks from Microbial Threats in the Arctic.
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... After beginning her government career as a presidential management intern under Ronald Reagan, Dr. Hartman worked on Capitol Hill for House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Don Fuqua, as a senior engineer building spacecraft at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and as a senior policy analyst at the White House.
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