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            <NameColumnValue>Roosevelt Y. Johnson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Michael C. Wholley</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>L. Seth Statler</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David S. Weaver</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Glenn A. Delgado</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jaiwon Shin</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>William H. Gerstenmaier</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeri L. Buchholz</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Calvin Williams</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jay M. Henn</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Mark V. Glorioso</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Executive Director, NASA Shared Services Center</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Nancy A. Baugher</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Bill McNally</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Joseph S. Mahaley</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>S. Pete Worden</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Ames Research Center</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David D. McBride</NameColumnValue>
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              <Paragraph>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.).</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-358-2047.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) conducts high-quality, cutting-edge research that generates innovative concepts, tools, and technologies to enable revolutionary advances in our Nation's future aircraft as well as in the airspace in which they will fly. ARMD programs will facilitate a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more efficient national air transportation system. In addition, NASA's aeronautics research will continue to play a vital role in supporting NASA's human and robotic space exploration activities.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-358-1562.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate is responsible for NASA space operations in and beyond low Earth orbit, developing new exploration and transportation systems, and performing scientific research to enable sustained and affordable human exploration. It manages launch services, space communications and navigation, and works with the Mission Support Directorate to ensure the availability of appropriate rocket propulsion test capabilities that support human and robotic exploration requirements.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Science Mission Directorate</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-358-3889.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/organization-and-leadership/division-bios/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Science Mission Directorate carries out the scientific exploration of Earth and space to expand the frontiers of Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, and astrophysics. By sponsoring research and exploiting robotic observatory and explorer spacecraft, the directorate provides virtual human access to the most distant reaches of space and time, as well as more practical information relevant to changes on Earth.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-358-0454.</Footer>
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              <Heading>Space Technology Mission Directorate</Heading>
              <Paragraph>The Space Technology Mission Directorate develops, demonstrates, and infuses revolutionary, high-payoff technologies by pushing the boundaries of aerospace science. It employs a portfolio approach spanning a range of disciplines and technology readiness levels to advance technologies for the benefit of NASA, the aerospace industry, and other Government agencies and to address national needs. Research and technology development takes place in NASA Centers, academia, and industry, and it benefits from leveraged partnerships with other Government agencies and international partners. The directorate invests in technologies that have high potential for offsetting mission risk, reducing cost, and advancing existing capabilities, thereby enabling the Nation to pursue more challenging missions.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-358-2789.</Footer>
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              <Heading>Mission Support Directorate</Heading>
              <Paragraph>The Mission Support Directorate provides effective and efficient institutional support to enable the Agency to accomplish its missions successfully. It focuses on reducing institutional risk to NASA's current and future missions by improving processes, stimulating efficiency, and providing consistency and uniformity across institutional capabilities and services.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Ames Research Center</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html#.U7RoFZRdUwA</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Located in California's Silicon Valley, the Center enables exploration through selected developments, innovative technologies, and interdisciplinary scientific discovery. It provides leadership in Astrobiology; small satellites; technologies for CEV, CLV, and HLV; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing; intelligent-adaptive systems; advanced thermal protection; and airborne astronomy. The Center also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace, and it cultivates partnerships that benefit NASA's mission.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/home/index.html#.U7Rsn5RdUwB</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Located at Edwards Air Force Base, California, the Center carries out flight research and technology integration; validates space exploration concepts; conducts airborne remote sensing and science missions; enables airborne astrophysics observation missions to discover the origin, structure, evolution, and destiny of the universe; and supports space shuttle and International Space Station operations. It also supports activities in all four of NASA's Mission Directorates.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Glenn Research Center</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Located at Lewis Field, next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the Center develops critical space flight systems and technologies to advance the exploration of our solar system and beyond. In partnership with U.S. companies, universities, and other Government institutions, the Center's research and development efforts focus on advancements in propulsion, power, communications, nuclear, and human-related aerospace systems. Its scientists and engineers also develop new technologies for making airplanes quieter, safer, and less harmful to the environment.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Located in Greenbelt, MD, the Center expands our knowledge of Earth and its environment, the solar system, and the universe by observing them from space. It also conducts scientific investigations, develops and operates space systems, and advances essential technologies.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Located in Houston, TX, the Center specializes in human space flight. It hosts and staffs program and project offices; selects and trains astronauts; manages and conducts projects that build, test, and integrate human-rated systems for transportation, habitation, and working in space; and plans and operates human space flight missions. This work requires a comprehensive understanding of space and planetary environments, as well as research into the effects of those environments on human physiology. It also requires development of technology to sustain and preserve life; maintenance of a supply chain to design, manufacture, and test flight products; selection, training, and provision of medical care to those who fly space missions; and ongoing administrative mission support services. The Center is currently hosting the International Space Station Program, the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Program, and the Human Research Program. It plays a lead role in developing, operating, and integrating human exploration missions that include commercial, academic, international, and U.S. Government partners.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Kennedy Space Center</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>Located on Florida's east coast, the Center is responsible for NASA's space launch operations and spaceport and range technologies. Home to NASA’s Launch Services Program, it manages the processing and launching of astronaut crews and associated payloads. Its management activities include the International Space Station segments, research experiments and supplies, and NASA’s scientific and research spacecraft. These scientific and research spacecraft range from robotic landers to Earth observation satellites and space-based telescopes on a variety of launch vehicles.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html#.U7SAWJRdUwA</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Innovative technology experts at the Center support NASA’s current programs and future exploration missions by developing new products and processes that benefit the Agency and consumers. The Center remains a leader in cutting-edge research and development in the areas of physics, chemistry, technology, prototype designing, engineering, environmental conservation, and renewable energy.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Langley Research Center</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/home/index.html#.U7SEs5RdUwA</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Located in Hampton, VA, the Center is renowned for its scientific and technological expertise in aerospace research, systems integration, and atmospheric science. Established in 1917 as an aeronautics lab, it has a rich heritage in space and science technologies. Its engineers conduct critical research in materials and structures; aerodynamics; and hypersonic, supersonic, and subsonic flight. Langley researchers and engineers also have developed and validated technologies to improve the effectiveness, safety, environmental compatibility, and efficiency of the Nation's air transportation system. The Center supports the space exploration program and space operations with systems analysis and engineering, aerosciences, materials and structures, and technology and systems development and testing. It continues to play a principal role in understanding and protecting our planet through atmospheric measurement, instruments, missions, and prediction algorithms. By determining appropriate preventative and corrective action for problems, trends, or issues across NASA programs and projects, its Engineering and Safety Center personnel have improved mission safety.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Marshall Space Flight Center</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, use the link below.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html#.U7SMnpRdUwA</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Located in Huntsville, AL, the Center provides unique expertise in development and integration of space transportation and propulsion systems; space systems and technologies; and scientific research, instruments, and experiments required for space exploration and space operations. It manages the following programs and projects: the space launch system, International Space Station (ISS) environmental control and life support systems, ISS payload operations, numerous ISS facilities and experiments, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Discovery and New Frontiers Programs, space technology demonstration missions, and the Michoud Assembly Facility, a space vehicle manufacturing and assembly complex located in New Orleans, LA.</Paragraph>
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