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B BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Pages 83-87

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... In that capacity he certified readiness of more than 100 space launch vehicles arid was responsible for development of the Inertial Upper Stage, Shuttle Launch Facility at Vandenberg AFB, and other DOD space activities. Farlier in his career at Aerospace, as a principal director of the Aerodynamics and Propulsion Research Laboratory, he directed reentry aerophysics, advanced propulsion, and mechanics research activities.
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... Brill participated in a comprehensive tour of 16 Russian space facilities arid Baikonur as a member of an AlAA Technical Delegation; served as an independent reviewer on the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's NEPSTP, Skipper, and RHETT programs; and served as a member on two NRC committees, Earth to Orbit Transportation Options =d Advawed Solid Rocket Motor Quality Control arm Test Program.
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... Dr. McManus' principal research interests are in integrated multidisciplinary programs to understand the behavior of advanced materials and structures in realistic aerospace environments, and the utilization of this understanding to design both advanced aerospace structures and improved material systems.
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... He has served on many national and international committees, including the lANNAF Committee on Chemical Propulsion, AlAA Propulsion and Power Committee, AGARD Propulsion and Energetics Panel, NRC committees and boards including the ASEB Pane! on Small Spacecraft Technology and the Committee on Advarlced Space Technology, and the NASA Research and Advanced Technology Propulsion Panel.
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... Hulburt Science and Engineering Award (NRL's highest award) and the Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award (the Navy's highest award for outstanding technical and scientific achievement)
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