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House Science Committee Hearing: Options for Hubble Science
Committee on Science Hearing Options for Hubble Science 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 2318 Rayburn House Office Building (WEBCAST) WITNESS LIST: Mr. Gary Pulliam is Vice President for Civil and Commercial Operations at Aerospace Corporation, which studied Hubble options for NASA. Dr. Lou Lanzerotti was Chair of the National Academy of Sciences study on the Hubble, known officially as the Committee on the Assessment of Options Bfor Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Lanzerotti is a professor of solar-terrestrial research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a consultant to Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. Dr. Steve Beckwith is Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and a professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. The Institute manages the Hubble Space Telescope on behalf of NASA. Dr. Paul Cooper is Vice President and Deputy General Manager of MD Robotics, the company building the arm for the robotic servicing mission to repair the Hubble. Dr. Colin Norman is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, and the lead scientist on the proposal to build the Hubble Origins Probe. Dr. Joseph Taylor is a Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Physics at Princeton University. In 2001 Dr. Taylor served as a co-chair of the National Academy of Science decadal survey, the document that recommended priorities for astronomy and astrophysics missions in this decade. The survey is prepared by the Academy's Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee. Dr. Taylor also served on the Academy's Hubble Committee that was chaired by Dr. Lanzerotti. Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Location: Washington, DC, US Web Site Address: http://www.house.gov/science |
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