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3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership
Pages 25-30

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... Mission Concepts to assess whether NASA's proposed AFTA design reference mission is responsive to the overall strategy to pursue the science objectives of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal survey, and, in particular, the survey's top-ranked, large-scale, space-based priority: the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope. The committee will hold its first and only in-person meeting in January 2014.
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From page 26...
... At the second meeting, committee members received presentations from Adrian Simmons, Chairman of the Global Climate Observing System Steering Committee; Toshiyoshi Kimura, Associate Director for Engineering, Earth Observation Research Center, Satellite Applications Mission Directorate, JAXA; Duane Waliser, Chief Scientist, Earth Science and Technology Directorate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Thomas Piekutowski, Program Manager for Sun-Earth System Sciences, and Stella Melo, Senior Program Scientist, from the Canadian Space Agency. In closed session, the committee continued to refine the report structure and content and process for moving forward with report development.
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From page 27...
... These discussions included perspectives on the future of human spaceflight from Roscosmos and ESA. Following that meeting, several committee members conducted two scheduled site visits to the Johnson Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center (the final site visit is scheduled in August to the Marshall Space Flight Center)
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From page 28...
... The panel worked on developing and launching a survey of stakeholders. The committee met in closed session at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on July 24-26 to receive progress reports from the Technical Panel and the Public and Stakeholder Opinions Panel and review white papers submitted by the public and stakeholders.
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From page 29...
... Miller, University of Michigan Stanley Presser, University of Maryland, College Park Cliff Zukin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Krisztina Marton, Senior Program Officer, Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) Constance Citro, Director, CNSTAT Jacqui Sovde, Program Associate, CNSTAT Technical Feasibility Panel Membership John C
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... Del Castillo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Jack D Fellows, EnviroGen International Foundation and G2Groups, Inc.
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