NRC Fills Out Committee Slate for Human Spaceflight Study

The National Research Council (NRC) has released the slate of committee members for its congressionally-requested study on the future of the human spaceflight program.   The co-chairs of the study, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and Cornell space scientist Jonathan Lunine, were announced earlier.

Joining Perry and Lunine are the following committee members:

• Dr. Bernard Burke, MIT
• Gen. (Ret.) James "Hoss" Cartwright, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar, Dittmar Associates, Inc.
• Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund, George Washington University
• Dr. James Jackson, University of Michigan
• Mr. Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center
• Dr. Frankin Martin, Martin Consulting Inc.
• Dr. David C. Mowery, University of California, Berkeley
• Mr. Bryan O'Connor, independent consultant  
• Dr. Stanley Presser, University of Maryland, College Park
• Dr. Helen R. Quinn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Dr. Asif A. Siddiqi, Fordham University
• Dr. John C. Sommerer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• Dr. Roger Tourangeau, Westat, Inc.
• Ms. Ariel Waldmanm, Spacehack Org.

Biographies are on the NRC's website, which also states that the first meeting of the committee will be on December 19, 2012 in Washington, DC.