Sixteen experienced engineers, scientists and executives have been named by NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin to form the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team. The team held its initial organizational meeting at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC on Friday.
Chaired by Thomas Young, retired executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp., this team has been chartered to review the agency's approach to robotic exploration of Mars in the wake of the recent loss of the Mars Polar Lander mission.
The team's participants are:
James Arnold, Deputy Director, Aerospace Directorate, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Thomas Brackey, Executive Director for Technical Operations, Hughes Space and Communications Co., Los Angeles, CA
Michael Carr, planetary geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Douglas Dwoyer, Associate Director for Research and Technology Competencies, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Gen. Ronald Fogelman, U.S. Air Force (retired)
Maj. Gen. Ralph Jacobsen, U.S. Air Force (retired) and president emeritus of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Herb Kottler, Associate Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Peter Lyman, consultant, Pasadena, CA
Joanne Maguire, Vice President for Group Development, TRW Space & Technology Group, Redondo Beach, CA
Robert Pattishall, Director of Advanced Systems and Technology, National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, VA
Larry Soderblom, planetary scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ
Peter Staudhammer, Vice President for Science and Technology, TRW Inc., Cleveland, OH
Kathy Thornton, Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and retired NASA astronaut
Peter Wilhelm, Director of the Naval Center for Space Technology, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Brian Williams, Assistant Professor, MIT Space Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
