| George
Aldrich | George
Aldrich and his team of professional sniffers apply their talents
to keeping the space shuttle and International Space Station
free of offensive odors and dangerous compounds. |
| John
Charles | From
investigating crew health and supporting research on the Russian
Space Station Mir to training John Glenn for a return trip to
orbit and overseeing the STS-107 science mission, Charles has
worked to discover and solve the challenges that will arise
as humans take the next step into space. |
| Sharon
Cobb | As
a young woman, Sharon Cobb became fascinated with materials
when she watched molten metal being formed into huge shapes
at a steel foundry in Birmingham, Ala., where her father worked.
Today, she is the lead scientist developing an important facility
for studying materials in the International Space Station. |
| Elaine
Duncan | "I
like working for NASA because I can be 'out there' -- working
on 'spacey,' cutting-edge technology that makes a real difference
here on Earth," says Elaine Flowers Duncan, project manager
for the Spacelab Pallet at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, Ala. |
| Michael
Ewert | When
Johnson Space Center engineer Michael K. Ewert entered his design
for a solar-powered house in his sixth-grade science fair, he
never dreamed he would some day be designing air conditioning
systems for a human habitat on the Moon. |
| Royce
Forman | This
Johnson Space Center engineer is a leading expert in the field
of aircraft structural integrity. He and his team developed
software that predicts the growth of fatigue cracks and structural
failures caused by metal defects. |
| Gavin
Giere | Gavin
Giere trains divers at Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy
Laboratory. The divers provide assistance in the training of
astronauts in a simulated zero-gravity environment. |
| Bob
Goss | Bob
Goss, chief engineer of the Flight Projects Directorate at the
Marshall Center, is responsible for the technical success of
several key Marshall Center projects, including its International
Space Station role. |
| George
Hopson | George
Hopson is the manager of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Project
at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He has worked
for NASA for 40 years, but at the age of 75 he still enjoys
the challenges each new day brings. |
| Cindy
Hutchens | As
a life support engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center,
Cindy Hutchens is developing new technologies for recycling
water on the International Space Station. |
| Mike
Kearney | Mike
Kearney is a member of the team that coordinates Space Station
science research from the Payload Operations Center at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center. |
| Brad
Mason | As
a timeline change officer, Mason is responsible for updating
and maintaining the daily plan that is used by the crew to operate
science experiments onboard the International Space Station. |
| Todd
May | Todd
May leads the team that built a “doorway to the stars” -- a
new airlock that is making it easier to exit the International
Space Station for space walks. |
| Brian
Mitchell | Brian
Mitchell, an engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center, helped
to design the International Space Station's Common Berthing
Mechanism. |
| Gary
Moore | As a crew
procedure engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center, Gary Moore
talks with scientists worldwide to understand what they want
to accomplish with their Space Station experiments. |
| Michelle
Munk | Michelle
Munk is the lead systems engineer for the Advanced Space Transportation
Program's Aerocapture Project. The project is developing ways
to use a planet's atmosphere to slow down a spacecraft. |
| Steve
Nunez | White
Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., is a vital proving
ground for NASA's space flight hardware. Its manager, Steve
Nunez, makes sure its people work safely and contribute to the
future of human space exploration. |
| Shamim
Rahman | NASA
has touched Dr. Shamim Rahman's life for about as
long as he can remember -- or at least as far back as 1969,
when he was glued to the television watching Neil Armstrong
step onto the lunar surface. |
| David
Reynolds | David
Reynolds was born with NASA in his blood. His parents worked
to support America's first ventures to space. Now, Reynolds,
a Marshall Space Flight Center engineer, communicates with crews
on the International Space Station, and was the designer of
a "tool holder" that makes space jobs easier and safer. |
| Barry
Robinson | He
was a fan of the Apollo program. He watched the early launches
on a black-and-white television in a Louisiana classroom. He
dreamed often of space. Barry Robinson never doubted that one
day he would work for NASA. He just never imagined it would
be in Mississippi. |
| Miguel
Rodriguez |
Growing up in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Miguel Rodriguez knew at
age 17 that he wanted to work in America's space program. Little
could he have known then that staying focused on that goal would
lead him to become director of NASA's Propulsion Test Directorate
at Stennis Space Center, where he is responsible for overseeing
the safe operation of one-of-a-kind national test facilities
valued at over $2 billion. |
| Rick
Rodriguez and Tessa Lucas | He
fled Castro's Cuba as a child. She made a less dramatic, but
long journey from the Philippines. Their love for art, science
and science fiction brought them together in high school. Now
this married couple works on key NASA programs at the Marshall
Space Flight Center. |
| Jeneene
Sams | As
a manager for NASA's Space Product Development Program, Jeneene
Sams brings the benefits of space back to people on Earth. |
| Scott
Smith | Making
sure astronauts stay healthy in space is the job of hundreds
of people at NASA. One of those people is Dr. Scott M. Smith,
the lead for the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
| Susan
Spencer | Susan
Spencer is part of the team that designed, manufactured and
tested the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure
Carrier, a cargo container that makes it possible to carry more
science experiments in the shuttle or quickly deliver spare
parts to the International Space Station. |
Rita
Sutton and
Roxanna Sherwin | Ever
since they visited the Marshall Space Flight Center's space
museum as little girls, Rita Sutton and Roxanna Sherwin knew
they wanted to be a part of the space program.
|
| Judy
Marie Tate | Houstonian
Judy Marie Tate packed up her enormous shoe collection and moved
to Huntsville, Ala., for a one-year stint at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center. She supports International Space Station
science activities, acting as a liaison between the lead increment
scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston and the payload
operations team in Huntsville. |
| Debrah
Underwood | When
looking for a new job, science teacher Debrah Underwood didn't
dream that today she'd be training astronauts to operate cutting-edge
science experiments aboard the International Space Station.
Underwood is Training and Crew Operations Group Lead at the
Marshall Space Flight Center. |
| John
Uri | As
a lead scientist for the International Space Station, John Uri
makes sure experiments are conducted as planned and that scientists
are satisfied with the operations and results of their experiments. |
