Sep 16 2002
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe announced that Peggy A. Whitson would be NASA's first ISS Science Officer. In the future, NASA planned to assign one of its astronauts to the post for each ISS expedition crew. The objective of the assignment was to increase the ISS's emphasis on research. According to NASA, the ISS Science Officer would focus initially on U.S. research conducted on the ISS. As the station's research capabilities expanded in the future, NASA would discuss with the ISS's international partners the possibility of expanding the ISS Science Officer's role. NASA's ISS Science Officer would be responsible for working with the U.S. research community on the requirements and objectives of ISS experiments, acting as the pointof-contact between ISS crew and NASA-sponsored principal investigators, payload developers, and other ISS stakeholders. As a crew member of Expedition 5 in June 2002, Whitson, who had a PhD in biochemistry, would become the first resident scientist on the ISS. (NASA, “NASA Administrator Names Whitson First NASA ISS Science Officer,” news release 02-175, 16 September 2002.)
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