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Living and Working in Space: Habitat |
Presenters:
Steven E. Johnson
Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Purdue University, achieving a Bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering in 1996. After college, Steven was employed as a Safety &
Mission Assurance engineer, and later went on to became an International Space Station
Flight Controller at Johnson Space Center, in Houston, TX. International Space Station
(ISS) is a world-class scientific and research vehicle orbiting Earth at an altitude
of 200 miles, and has been monitored and operated by Mission Control Center (MCC)
operators around-the-clock since November 1998. Steven started his flight control
career as a Mission Evaluation Room Operations safety engineer, supporting on-orbit
operations with the first ISS element launched in 1998. In 2000, Steven became a
member of the MCC Flight Control Team which directly operates ISS. As a flight controller,
Steven is responsible for the ISS Electrical Power System, which collects solar
energy and converts it into operational power for all ISS systems.
Mr. Johnson has supported 8 ISS Increment Crew Rotations, 10 Space Shuttle assembly
and logistic flights to ISS, and has almost 4000 hours accumulated in Mission Control
during mission support and training activities.
Dr. Therese Kucera
Therese Kucera is a solar physicist working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, MD. She attended Carleton College and the University of Colorado,
Boulder. After receiving her PhD in 1993 she obtained a National Research Council
Fellowship at Goddard, where she continued to study solar flares. In 1995 she joined
the team of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) where she worked on science
operations and data analysis for two of SOHO's ultraviolet spectrometers and contributed
to the mission's public outreach programs. Since 2003 she has been Deputy Project
Scientist for NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission, to
be launched this fall. She continues to study various aspects of the solar atmosphere.
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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