Jan 18 2008
From The Space Library
NASA announced the appointment of Jaiwon Shin to replace Lisa J. Porter as NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Porter, who had held the position since 2005, was leaving NASA to become the first Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Her resignation would become effective on 1 February. Shin was serving as Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics at the time of his new appointment. He had previously worked for NASA’s LaRC and GRC, authoring more than 20 papers and receiving numerous professional awards. As Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission, Shin would be responsible for guiding NASA’s aeronautics research portfolio in areas such as the fundamental aeronautics of flight, aviation safety, and the national airspace system.
NASA, “Aeronautics Associate Administrator Departs NASA for New Position,” news release 08-002, 9 January 2008, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08002_Porter_Leaves_NASA.html (accessed 30 December 2010); NASA, “NASA Selects Jaiwon Shin To Head Aeronautics Research,” news release 08-014, 18 January 2008, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08014_shin_aero.html (accessed 30 December 2010).
At a ceremony during the opening of the Spirit of Innovation exhibition at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, NASA recognized the first winners of the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award, a national competition that challenges high school students to create concepts that advance the personal spaceflight industry. NASA’s Innovative Partnership Program sponsored the US$10,000 prize for the Conrad Award. The Spirit of Innovation exhibition would travel nationwide to highlight the students’ achievements. The X Prize Foundation announced that, in addition, a scroll inscribed with the winners’ names would travel to the ISS. Michael Hakimi and Talia Nour-Omid had won the Conrad award in October 2007 for the innovation of a device that could effectively monitor all of an astronaut’s vital signs.
Aero-News Network, “NASA, X Prize Foundation Recognize 2007 Pete Conrad Award Winners,” 22 January 2008, http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=c8a0d40b-5081-43b6-afcd-f2b876e7408b (accessed 16 December 2010); NASA, “NASA and X Prize Foundation To Recognize Conrad Award Winners,” news release M08-010, 16 January 2008, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_M08010_Xprize_HQ_M08010_Xprize_HQ_M08010_Xprize_Conrad_Award.html (accessed 16 December 2008).
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