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Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
H. GUYFORD STEVER has had a career as a scientist, engineer,
educator, and administrator. He was Science Advisor to Presidents Nixon
and Ford and concurrently was Director of the National Science Foundation
(1972-1976~. Earlier, he was President of Carnegie-Mellon University and
Chief Scientist of the Air Force. Dr. Stever was Professor of Aeronautics and
Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as head
of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering. More recently, he was President of the Universities
Research Association and Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of
Engineering. He currently serves on the Carnegie Commission on Science,
Technology, and Government. He is a member of the National Academies
of Sciences and Engineering. After the Challenger accident, he headed the
National Research Council's Solid Rocket Booster Redesign Panel and was
awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. In 1989 he chaired
the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering study
that led to the White Paper, "Toward a New Era in Space."
ROBERT H. CANNON, JR., is Charles Lee Powell Professor and
Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford
University. His research interests include precision control of very flexible
manipulators for robots and spacecraft and the space gyro experiment
to test the general theory of relativity. Previously, he was Professor of
Engineering and Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Applied
Science at the California Institute of Technology. Between 1970 and 1974
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he was US Assistant Secretary of Transportation. Prior to that he had been
Chief Scientist of the Air Force, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and a researcher in flight control and inertial navigation
systems in the aviation industry. He is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering, the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space
Engineering Board, and Chairman of NASA:s Flight Telerobotics Servicer
Advisory Committee. He has served as Chairman of the National Research
Council Assembly of Engineering and as Chairman of the President's
Commission on the National Medal of Science. Dr. Cannon holds several
patents and has published extensively on such subjects as the environmental
impact of stratospheric flight and automatic controls for aerospace vehicles.
JOSEPH G. GAVIN is a Senior Management Consultant for Grumman
Corporation. He was elected President of Grumman in 1976 and retained
this position until February of 1985, when he was elected Chairman of the
Executive Committee. Mr. Gavin retired from Grumman in September
of 1985. He was named the Aerospace Educational Council Man of the
Year in 1968. In 1971, NASA awarded him its Distinguished Public Service
Medal for his contributions "as the leader and representative of the Lunar
Module team at Grumman." He was chief of the Grumman missile and
space engineering program and director of the Lunar Module Program
throughout the Apollo years. Mr. Gavin is a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical
Society and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the
Aerospace Industries Association. He recently served as a panel member on
the Department of Energy Advisory Board's International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor Working Party, as a board member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of the
Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
JACK L. KERREBROCK is a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the
California Institute of Technology for 1990 and Richard Cockburn Maclau-
rin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology since 1975. Before that he headed the MIT Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics and was Associate Dean of Engineering at
MIT. Dr. Kerrebrock was Associate Administrator for Aeronautics and
Space Technology of NASA from 1981 to 1983. He has taught and con-
ducted research in energy conversion and propulsion since 1956, when he
received his PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology. His
early work was on nuclear rockets, space propulsion and power, and mag-
netohydrodynamic generators. More recently, he has addressed the fluid
mechanics of turbomachinery for aircraft engines and gas turbines. He
was Director of the MIT Gas Thrbine Laboratory from 1968 to 1978. Dr.
Kerrebrock is a past and present member of several governmental advisory
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groups, including the National Commission on Space. He was decorated
by the Air Force for Exceptional Civilian Service in 1981 and received
the Distinguished Service Medal from NASA in 1983. Dr. Kerrebrock is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering and chaired the 1989
National Research Council study on Hypersonic Technology for Military
Application.
LOUIS J. LANZEROlTI is a Distinguished Member of the Technical
Staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he has worked since receiving his
PhD from Harvard in 1965. Dr. Lanzerotti is concurrently an Adjunct
Professor at the University of Florida, and his principal research interests
include studies of planetary magnetospheres, energetic particles emitted
by the sun, and the impacts of space processes on space and terrestrial
technologies. Dr. Lanzerotti is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics, and is a
Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. He
has served on numerous NASA and National Science Foundation advisory
committees concerned with space and solar-terrestrial research, chaired
NASA's Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee, and is currently
Chairman of the National Research Council's Space Studies Board. He is
a recipient of NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal.
ELLIOTT C. LEVINTHAL is a Research Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Associate Dean for Research at Stanford University as well
as Director of the Stanford Institute for Manufacturing and Automation.
Previously, he has served as Director of the Defense Science Once of the
Defense Advanced Research Agency, Professor (Research) of Genetics in
the Stanford School of Medicine, Director of the Stanford Instrumentation
Laboratory, Chief Engineer of Century Electronics, President of Levinthal
Electronics Products, Inc., and Director of Research of the Instrumentation
Division, Varian Associates. His research areas include applications of
computers to image processing and medical instrumentation, exobiology,
planetary sciences, and manufacturing science. Dr. Levinthal received his
PhD from Stanford and is a member of the National Research Council's
Space Studies Board and the Army Sciences Board.
JAMES W. MAR is J.C. Hunsaker Professor of Aerospace Education
in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he is also Director of the Space Systems
Laboratory and the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Composites. He
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on
National Research Council panels on thermal protection systems, thermal
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protection of aerospace vehicles, and structural design with fibrous compos-
ites. In addition, he is a past member of the Materials Advisory Board at
the National Research Council and was a consultant to NASA's Committee
on Space Vehicle Structures. Dr. Mar was Chief Scientist of the US Air
Force from 1970 to 1972 and Department Head of the Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT from 1980 to 1982. He is a Fellow of
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Mar received
his doctorate in civil engineering from MIT in 1949.
JOHN H. McELROY is currently Dean of Engineering at the Univer-
sity of Texas at Arlington. He was formerly Vice President for Technology
of Hughes Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of the Hughes Aircraft Com-
pany. Dr. McElroy joined Hughes in 1985 as Director of Special Projects in
the Space and Communications Group, after serving as Assistant Adminis-
trator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he
directed the nation's program in civil operational Earth observations from
space. From 1966 to 1982, he served with NASA, where his last position
was Deputy Director of Goddard Space Flight Center. He previously per-
formed laser research at the Quantum Electronics Research Laboratory at
the University of Texas at Austin and taught electronics in the US Army's
air defense guided missile program. Dr. McElroy is a Fellow of the In-
stitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
He serves on many advisory committees and is Chairman of the National
Research Council/Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Committee
on Advanced Space Technology.
DUANE T. McRUER is President and Technical Director of Systems
Technology, Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and the National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering
Board, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Society of
Automotive Engineers, and the Human Factors Society. He has chaired
NASA subcommittees on Avionics, Control and Guidance and the National
Research Council Committee on Space Station Engineering Design Issues.
He was a member of the NRC Committee on a Commercially Developed
Space Facility as well as NASA's Aeronautics Advisory Committee. Mr.
McRuer's research interests are in control systems engineering, manual
and automatic flight control and guidance for aerospace and land vehicles,
man-machine systems, and dynamics of human operators.
WILLIAM J. MERRELL, JR., is the President of Texas A&M Uni-
versity, Galveston, and a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Maritime Service. He
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holds academic appointments as Professor of Oceanography and as Profes-
sor of Marine Services at Texas A&M University. Dr. Merrell is a member
of the National Research Council's Space Studies Board and has been a
proponent of scientific programs designed to examine the Earth's climate
changes. He is also Vice Chair of the Committee on Science and Technol-
ogy of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Before
taking up his present position at Texas A&M, he was an Assistant Director
of the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he was in charge of
the Geosciences Directorate and received the NSFs Distinguished Service
Award in 1987. Dr. Merrell received his PhD in oceanography from Texas
A&M University.
ROBERT H. MOSER is a physician and educator who has been Vice
President for Medical Affairs at The NutraSweet Company since 1986.
He served as flight controller of Project Mercury, consulting member of
the medical evaluation team for Project Gemini, and consultant to Project
Apollo. From 1984 to 1987 he was Chairman of the NASA Life Sciences
Advisory Committee. Dr. Moser received his MD from Georgetown Uni-
versity and entered the Army, where he held many positions, including that
of battalion surgeon in Korea; Chief of Medical Services for the US Army
Hospital, Salzburg, Austria; Assistant Chief of Medicine, US Army Wiper
General Hospital; Chief of Medicine, William Beaumont General Hospital;
Chief of Medicine, Brooke Army Hospital; and Chief of Medicine, Walter
Reed General Hospital. Dr. Moser retired in 1969 to become Chief of
Staff of the Maui (Hawaii) Memorial Hospital and Clinical Professor of
Medicine at Hawaii University from 1969 to 1977, at present is Adjunct
Professor of Medicine of Northwestern University Medical School and
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Executive Vice
President of the American College of Physicians from 1977 to 1986. He
is the author of Diseases of Medical Progress and has contributed over 150
articles to medical science journals and medical books. He is a member of
the National Research Council's Space Studies Board.
EBERHARDT RECHTIN is Professor of Engineering at the Univer-
sity of Southern California. He was President of Aerospace Corporation
from 1977 to 1987; Chief Engineer of Hewlett Packard; Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Telecommunications; Principal Deputy Director, Research
and Engineering; and Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency,
US Department of Defense. From 1949 to 1967, he was on the staff of
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his positions included those of Direc-
tor of the NASA,/JPL deep space communications program and Assistant
Director for Hacking and Data Acquisition. Dr. Rechtin has received nu-
merous awards, including the NASA Medal of Science, the Distinguished
Public Service Award for the US Navy, and the von Karman Lectureship in
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Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, as
well as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Sciences. He
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, served on the 1986
National Research Council Committee on Post-Challenger Assessment of
Space Shuttle Flight Rates and Utilization and the 1987 Committee on the
Space Station, and now serves on the NRC's Commission on Engineering
and Technical Systems.
THOMAS P. STAFFORD, Lt. General? US Air Force (ret.), currently
heads the aerospace consulting firms of Defense Technologies, Inc., in
Oklahoma City, and Stafford, Burke, and Hecker in Washington, D.C.
He was an astronaut during the Gemini and Apollo programs, including
serving as pilot of Gemini 6, command pilot for Gemini 9, and commander
of Apollo 10 and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He was later head of the
astronaut corps and deputy director of flight crew operations at NASH
In 1975, he became Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center
at Edwards Air Force Base and, later, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff
for Research, Development and Acquisitions. General Stafford holds a
number of honorary degrees and serves on several advisory boards. He is
a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
the American Astronautical Society and the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots, as well as a member of the National Research Council's Aeronautics
and Space Engineering Board. He served on the NRC 1987 review of
the Space Station Program and on the 1988 Committee on Space Station
Engineering Design Issues.
LAURENCE R. YOUNG is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astro-
nautics and Director of the Man-Vehicle Laboratory at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His area of expertise is biomedical engineering,
with a special emphasis on space medicine and biology. Dr. Young was
a principal investigator on vestibular experiments aboard Spacelabs -1, -2,
D-1, and SLS-1, and is the inventor of an eye movement monitor used
in vestibular and other physiological research. He has been on the fac-
ulty of MIT since 1962, having received his ScD there in the same year.
Dr. Young is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the
Aerospace Medicine Association, and the American Institute of Aeronau-
tics and Astronautics. He is a charter member and Past President of the
Biomedical Engineering Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers. He has served on numerous national boards
and committees, including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and
the National Research Council Committees on Human Factors, Space Sta-
tion Engineering Design Issues, and Advanced Space Technology to Meet
Future Needs.
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