NASA\u2019s newly restructured Advisory Council is holding its inaugural meeting in Washington DC, as it discuss the challenges facing the agency for the next 50 years. <\/p>\n
Comprising of 24 members \u2013 taken from key space, military and civilian positions throughout the United States \u2013 the Council is discussing all aspects of immediate and future challenges facing NASA, from the safe Return to Flight of the Shuttle fleet, to manned exploration of the solar system.\n<\/p>\n
Two men who have already left the confines of Earth\u2019s orbit are on the council, with former Senator and Apollo astronaut Harrison H. \u2018Jack\u2019 Schmitt chairing \u2013 and former Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the Moon \u2013 joining as an expert on the panel.<\/font> <\/font> \u2018I am looking forward to working closely with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and NASA senior management as they address the exciting challenges facing the agency as it prepares for its next 50 years,\u2019 Schmitt said. <\/p>\n \u2018These challenges include returning the space shuttle safely to flight, completing the International Space Station, developing a new crew exploration vehicle and returning humans to the surface of the moon and then on to Mars.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/font> Other key names listed are Gen. Lester L. Lyles, USAF (Ret.), former commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Dr. Charles F. Kennel, director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. <\/font> <\/font> The complex task of implementing President Bush\u2019s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) brought back the requirement of guidance from the Council \u2013 which has a number of previously-chartered standing committees are incorporated, as NASA aims to bring together a mix of experts to help advise on viable options to achieve the goals of exploration. Senator Schmitt will be joined on the NASA Advisory Council by the following distinguished experts: <\/p>\n \u2013Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF (Ret.) Aerospace Consultant <\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Juan J. Alonso, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Stanford University<\/p>\n \u2013Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 Astronaut<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Raymond S. Colladay, Chair Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Research Council<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, Chair Space Studies Board, National Research Council<\/p>\n \u2013Robert M. Hanisee Trust Company of the West<\/p>\n \u2013Capt. Frederick H. Hauck, USN (Ret.) Former Space Shuttle Astronaut<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., Director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington<\/p>\n \u2013Hon. Kay Coles James, Consultant Former Director, Office of Personnel Management<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Stephen I. Katz, Director National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of Health<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Charles F. Kennel, Director Scripps Institute of Oceanography<\/p>\n \u2013Dr. Gerald L. Kulcinski, Associate Dean, Research University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA\u2019s newly restructured Advisory Council is holding its inaugural meeting in Washington DC, as it discuss the challenges facing the agency for the next 50 years. Comprising of 24 members \u2013 taken from key space, military and civilian positions throughout the United States \u2013 the Council is discussing all aspects of immediate and future challenges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The NASA Advisory Council will include subject matter experts in five key areas: exploration, science, aeronautics, human capital, and audit and finance, and also include three ex-officio members from the National Research Council\u2019s Space Studies Board, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, and the Institute of Medicine. <\/p>\n