Shuttle Reality & Return to the Vision by George Abbey

Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy

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Email: gabbey@rice.edu
Office Phone: 713.348.3828
Office Fax: 713.348.5993
PROGRAMS
Space Policy
Biography:
George W.S. Abbey is the Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy at the Baker Institute. From 1996 to 2001, he served as the director of NASA Johnson Space Center. Prior to being assigned as an Air Force captain to NASA’s Apollo Program at the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1964, he served in the Air Force Research and Development Command and was involved in the early Air Force manned space activities, including the Dyna-Soar Program. In 1976, he was named director of flight operations, where he was responsible for operational planning and management of flight crew and flight control activities for all manned spaceflight missions. In 1983, he became director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate. In 1990, Abbey was selected as deputy for operations and senior NASA representative to the Synthesis Group and was charged with defining strategies for returning to the moon and landing on Mars. In 1991, Abbey was appointed senior director for civil space policy for the National Space Council in the Executive Office of the President. Abbey has received numerous awards, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and three NASA Distinguished Service Medals. He was a member of the operations team presented with the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 1970 by President Richard Nixon for its role in support of the Apollo 13 Mission. Abbey graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1954 and received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology in 1959.

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PUBLICATIONS
Return to Reality: Why a Space Shuttle Program Is Vital to the Survival of the International Space Station, Oct 26 2011
Restore the Vision, Jul 20 2011
International Space Medicine Summit III Executive Summary, Feb 16 2010
United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray, Jul 28 2009
Congressional Briefing for United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray, Jun 30 2009
Maximizing NASA's Potential in Flight and on the Ground: Recommendations for the Next Administration, Jan 20 2009
Video Briefing Transcript: Public Policy for the Public - Science and Technology, Dec 05 2007
Nuclear Nonproliferation: Policy Implications, Nov 02 2007
United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, Aug 31 2005
EVENTS
International Space Medicine Summit 2012
Falling Back to Earth: A Firsthand Account of the Great Space Race and the End of the Cold War
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
Houston Urban Debate League Space Policy Day
International Space Medicine Summit 2011 (Russian)
International Space Medicine Summit 2011
Yuri's Night: The Engineering, Scientific and Cultural Legacy of the Space Shuttle
U.S. Human Spaceflight: Continuity and Stability
Safe and Cost-effective Space Operations in an Era of International Cooperation and Commercialization
International Space Medicine Summit 2010
Thirty-five Years of U.S.-Russian Space Science Cooperation: Lessons for the Future
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Project
Heavenly Ambitions: Americas Quest to Dominate Space
International Space Medicine Summit III