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B Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 53-56

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... Dr. Thornton served on the NRC Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, the Committee for Technological Literacy, and the Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration, and served as co-chair of the Stanford University/Planetary Society Workshop on Examining the Vision: Balancing Science and Exploration.
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From page 54...
... She has been a member of various advisory committees, including the NRC Committee on Solar Terrestrial Research, the NRC Plasma Sciences Committee, the NASA Sun-Earth-Connection Advisory Subcommittee, and the SSSC Roadmap Committee. She was the chair of the 2003 NASA Plasma Sails Working Group and a member of the Advisory Committee to the UCLA Basic Plasma Science Facility.
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From page 55...
... He is also the co-director of the Minority Institute Astrobiology Collaborative, the principal investigator on the NASA Astrobiology Institute Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program, a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Astrovirology focus group, and part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center education and public outreach team for the Mars Science Laboratory.
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From page 56...
... He was on the staff of the Congressional Budget Office and also worked for the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University. He has held Guggenheim and Verville fellowships and is an associate editor of the German spaceflight magazine Raumfahrt Concrete, in addition to writing for such publications as Novosti Kosmonavtiki (Russia)
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