Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing Workforce (2010)
Chapter: Appendix C: Public Agendas for Meetings
C
Public Agendas for Meetings
FIRST MEETING
KECK CENTER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES, WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 20, 2009
Open Session
9:15 am | Welcome, Introductions, Discussion of the Committee’s Task | Steven Bohlen, Chair |
9:30 am | Overview of the NASA Suborbital Program | Cheryl Yuhas, Program Executive, Earth Science and Heliophysics Divisions, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate (SMD) |
10:20 am | Discussion | Committee |
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 |
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 |
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 |
3:15 pm | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) | Program Executive: Raynor Taylor, NASA HQ/SMD/Astrophysics Program Scientist: Paul Hertz, NASA SMD |
4:15 pm | Discussion with Speakers | Committee |
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
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 |
9:00 am | Discussion | Committee |
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 |
11:15 am | Discussion | Committee |
12:00 pm | Working Lunch—Discuss Presentations |
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SECOND MEETING
LASP, BOULDER, COLORADO
August 19, 2009
Open Session
8:40 am | Welcome from LASP | Dan Baker, LASP |
8:50 am | Introductions, Opening Remarks, Discussion of the Agenda, and Procedures for the Panel Sessions | Steven Bohlen, Chair |
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 |
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 |
11:00 am | Panel Discussion on SOFIA | Dan Lester, University of Texas Eric Becklin, UCLA Andrew Harris, University of Maryland |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
8:45 am | Convene, Review Agenda for the Day | Steven Bohlen, Chair |
9:00 am | Discuss Panel Presentations | Committee |
Closed Session
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
8:30 am | Convene | Steven Bohlen, Chair |
8:35 am | Panel Discussion: Education and Public Out-reach (EPO) and Suborbital Research | Erika Wagner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
9:00 am | Panel Discussion: Suborbital Life Science Research | Larry Young and Erika Wagner, MIT Mark Shelhamer, Johns Hopkins University |
9:30 am | Panel Discussion: Suborbital Physical Science Research | John Pojman, Louisiana State University Steve Collicott, Purdue University Josh Colwell, University of Central Florida |
10:00 am | Panel Discussion: Suborbital Hypervelocity Research | Richard Miles, Princeton University |
Closed Session
September 25, 2009
Closed Session
1:00 pm | Meeting Adjourns |
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