We know we can work miracles together—-Reliable Shuttle in Museum–Brilliant
QUEEN of Science fiction approach—KEY Obama ADVISOR!!
Note her education—-B of ARTS in Politics & Economics, M of ARTS in Science, technology & public policy.
This is who the president is listening to.
Sounds like a really rigorous scientific education.
She helped get the shuttle in the museum and wants to work miracles.
The commercial approach has been largely science fiction per Lori Garver, however, she said together we can work miracles together. Interesting, the ASAP, CAIB have been very critical of shuttle safety , but in the case of the low budget CC be interesting to how they perceive the rigor of cots manned rating. The people leading the agency today do not understand what is involved in flying a manned vehicle. The ASAP will have to make significant adjustments to their requirements for giving the stamp of approval of the science fiction approaches.
Unfortunately, astronauts will pay dearly for the lack of NASA management knowledge of the required disciplines in manned spacecraft development.
As everyone will soon discover, the manned rating criteria used for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle are not remotely comparable to those of the commercial crew vehicles.
The results/conclusions of the upcoming Accident Board will be interesting
Of course if you look at the experience and eduction of NASA leading proponent of the commercial approach to earth orbit, one can understand how NASA arrived at this point in manned spaceflight. Brings home the warnings of a former NASA official–”reliance on hope over experience ” as discussed in NASA plan puts America at Risk.
Maybe the critics are right, since America is broke , and we may cause loss of life the way we are heading, the shuttles are “not unsafe” but ” not safe”, we could use money for space for the poor and needy in the USA and around the world. After all, most don’t think we need to go to space, most don’t think we need Hubble or JWT .
Just kidding, let’s get shuttle flying and return to the moon.
Lori Beth Garver (born May 22, 1961 in Lansing, Michigan) is the Deputy Administratorof the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She was nominated on May 24, 2009, by President Barack Obama, along with Charles Bolden as NASA Administrator.[1] She was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on July 15, 2009.[2][3][4][5]
Garver was the lead civil space policy advisor for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and led the agency review team for NASA during the post-election transition. She worked at NASA from 1996–2001, first as a special assistant to the NASA administrator and senior policy analyst for the Office of Policy and Plans, and then as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy and Plans.[6][7]
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1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 NASA career
4 References
5 External links
[edit]Early life and education
Lori Garver was born in Lansing, Michigan on May 22, 1961, and she graduated fromHaslett High School in Haslett, Michigan in 1979. In 1983, she earned a Bachelor of Artsdegree in political science and economics from Colorado College. While working for Senator John Glenn from 1983–1984, she became interested in space, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in science, technology and public policy from the George Washington University in 1989.[6][8]
[edit]Career
During her career, Lori Garver worked in the nonprofit, government and commercial sectors. Garver has held advocacy roles for space exploration as a member of the NASA Advisory Council, a guest lecturer at the International Space University,[9] president and board member of Women in Aerospace, and president of the American Astronautical Society.[6][9]She was awarded both the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.[10]
Garver served as the second Executive Director of the National Space Society, a non-profit space organization based in Washington, D.C. for nine years, leaving the organization in 1998.[11] From 1998–2001, she served as the Associate Administrator of the Office of Policy and Plans for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.[12] Reporting directly to the NASA Administrator, she managed the analysis, development, and integration of NASA policies and long-range plans, the NASA Strategic Management System, the NASA Advisory Council, and the History Division. Prior to this appointment, Garver served as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Office of Policy and Plans, and Special Assistant to the Administrator.[13][14]
In 2001–2002, Garver initiated a project to increase the visibility and viability of commercial spaceflight. While providing support to a client who was paying for a trip to space, she attempted to secure her own sponsored space flight aboard the Russian Soyuz vehicle to the International Space Station. She worked to secure sponsorship funding as she began the initial medical certification and training in Star City, Russia.[13][15] The effort ended because of a conflicting bid from another prospective space tourist.[16]
Garver was the President of Capital Space, LLC, and served as a Senior Advisor for Space at the Avascent Group, based inWashington, D.C. She served as Vice President of DFI Corporate Services (the predecessor organization to the Avascent Group) from 2001–2003.[13][14] In these roles, Garver provided strategic planning, technology feasibility research and business development assistance. She also gave merger, acquisition, and strategic alliance support to financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies in many industries.
Garver served as a lead space policy advisor for the Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry campaigns for president.[17][18][19] In November 2008, she was named to lead the Obama Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for NASA.[20][21]
[edit]NASA career
Garver’s confirmation as deputy administrator marks the second time she has worked for NASA. Her first period of service to the agency was from 1996 to 2001. She first served as a special assistant to the NASA administrator and senior policy analyst for the Office of Policy and Plans, before becoming the associate administrator for the Office of Policy and Plans. Reporting to the NASA administrator, she oversaw the analysis, development and integration of policies and long-range plans, the NASA Strategic Management System, and the NASA Advisory Council.[6]
In June 2010, she addressed the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and signed an Earth science satellite agreement.[22] She has participated in several NASA launch Tweetups.[23] In May 2011, she joined NASA scientists to participate in a field campaign studying how dust affects the snow cover in the Colorado River Basin. The team visited dust emission sites in the deserts of Utah and then snowpits in the Colorado mountains to learn how dust layers might help predict snow melt.[24]
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^ KENNETH CHANG (May 23, 2009). ”Retired General Picked to Lead NASA”. The New York Times.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — For NASA to achieve any of its lofty goals for the future, the commercial space industry must succeed, NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver said.
The space agency has bet big that private spaceships will be ready to carry cargo and astronauts to orbit soon. The future of the International Space Station, as well as the future of NASA’s robotic science missions and human deep space ambitions, depend on that outcome, Garver said yesterday (Oct. 20) here at theInternational Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight.
“In order to make good on the entire plan, it is this part of the plan that must be successful,” Garver said.
After 30 years of carrying astronauts into low-Earth orbit, NASA retired its space shuttle program earlier this year.
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“Contrary to what you might have heard, that marks the beginning, not the end,” Garver said. “With the support of the President and Congress, NASA has made a renewed commitment to human spaceflight.”
One leg of that commitment is a plan to build a new heavy-lift rocket (called the Space Launch System) and a deep-space crew capsule (called the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle) to take people first to an asteroid and then on to Mars.
But in order for NASA to devote its resources to that ambitious pursuit, private industry must take over transportation to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station, Garver said. [Top 10 Fantasy Spaceships Headed for Reality]
NASA and its partners plan to operate the space station through at least 2020, but without the space shuttle, Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft is the only means of getting there. Until commercial spacecraft are ready, NASA must rent rides on the Soyuz for its astronauts.
For fiscal year 2012, NASA requested $850 million to devote to its Commercial Crew Development Program, which supports the development of these private vehicles.
The agency hopes to end its outsourcing to Russia by the year 2016, but “if we don’t get full funding in 2012, this is at risk,” Garver said. That could prove costly down the line. “One additional year from the Russians will cost us $450 million,” she added.
The agency gave four private space companies — Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, SpaceX and Boeing — contracts under the most recent phase of the Commercial Crew Development Program. SpaceX, alone among the group, has already launched a test flight to orbit of its prototype spacecraft.
Still, Garver acknowledged that getting the private space industry off the ground isn’t easy.
“Many of us are frustrated that we have not been able to advance this agenda faster,” she said.
She also cited resistance from some within the space industry, particularly those who benefitted from NASA’s previous contracting methods and now oppose the government turning over the domain of low-Earth orbit to the private sector.
“The establishment typically doesn’t give away their own power and control readily without a fight,” Garver said.
Yet the issue is complicated, as many players in the traditional space establishment are the same private companies involved in the new commercial space renaissance.
Ultimately, though, Garver said that NASA’s encouragement of the commercial space industry will result in lowered costs, greater capabilities, and a more robust American space program overall.
“Together we’re developing an industry that until recently had largely been science fiction,” she said. “We know we can work miracles together.”
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