15TH ANNUAL FAA COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE SPEAKERS COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION http://www.faa.gov/go/ast 15-16 FEBRUARY 2012 HQ-12-0163.INDD John R. Allen Christine Anderson Dr. John R. Allen serves as the Program Executive for Crew Health Christine Anderson is the Executive Director of the New Mexico and Safety at NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, where he Spaceport Authority. She is responsible for the development oversees the space medicine activities conducted at the Johnson and operation of the first purpose-built commercial spaceport-- Space Center, Houston, Texas. Dr. Allen received a B.A. in Speech Spaceport America. She is a recently retired Air Force civilian Communication from the University of Maryland (1975), a M.A. with 30 years service. She was a member of the Senior Executive in Audiology/Speech Pathology from The Catholic University Service, the civilian equivalent of the military rank of General of America (1977), and a Ph.D. in Audiology and Bioacoustics officer. Anderson was the founding Director of the Space from Baylor College of Medicine (1996). Upon completion of Vehicles Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland his Master’s degree, he worked for the Easter Seals Treatment Air Force Base, New Mexico. She also served as the Director Center in Rockville, Maryland as an audiologist and speech- of the Space Technology Directorate at the Air Force Phillips language pathologist and received certification in both areas. Laboratory at Kirtland, and as the Director of the Military Satellite He joined the US Air Force in 1980, serving as Chief, Audiology Communications Joint Program Office at the Air Force Space at Andrews AFB, Maryland, and at the Wiesbaden Medical and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles where she directed Center, Germany, and as Chief, Otolaryngology Services at the the development, acquisition and execution of a $50 billion Aeromedical Consultation Service, Brooks AFB, Texas, where portfolio. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics he directed research and clinical services. Colonel Allen then and Astronautics. Anderson earned a B.S. in mathematics from served as the Commander of the Air Force DoD Medical Element the University of Maryland, and completed the National Security at Andrews AFB. He was detailed by the Air Force to the Space Leadership Program at Johns Hopkins University and the Senior Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD), NASA Headquarters Management in Government Program at Harvard University. from September 2001 to December 2005. He retired from the Air Force in February 2006 and was hired by NASA to continue on in his current capacity. He serves as a liaison between the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and the Office of Chief Health and Medical Officer. While on active duty he was a member of the DoD Hearing Conservation Working Group, and served for six years as Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General in Audiology, Speech Pathology, and Hearing Conservation. He serves on the Committee On Space Weather under the National Space Weather Program Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology. He served as a member of Space Environmental Melchor Antuñano Gap Analysis Work Group, reporting OSTP and on the Research Dr. Melchor Antuñano was born in Mexico City and is a graduate to Operations/Operations to Research work group, responding to of the National Autonomous University of Mexico School of the Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics). Medicine. He completed the Residency Program in Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He was awarded a post-doctoral research associateship by the U.S. While serving as The Adjutant General, Craig led the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences transformation of the Alaska National Guard for over six years. at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio, Texas. In this role he: oversaw the Alaska Army National Guard He is currently the Director of the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical development of missile defense operations and security missions Institute in Oklahoma City. He is credited with 568 professional at Ft Greely, Alaska; initiated the first associate (active duty and presentations and invited lectures at national and international National Guard) organization in Alaska with acceptance of the conferences in aerospace medicine in 37 countries, and with 57 new C-17 strategic airlift mission at Elmendorf AFB; transferred scientific publications covering a variety of aerospace medicine the air defense surveillance mission in Alaska from the active topics. He is Past-President of the U.S. Aerospace Medical duty to the Alaska Air National Guard; transferred the space Association, the U.S. Space Medicine Association, and the surveillance mission at Clear AFS from the active duty to the Iberoamerican Association of Aerospace Medicine. He is a Alaska Air National Guard; and oversaw the complex relocation Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and the Aerospace project of closing Kulis ANGB, constructing new facilities at Human Factors Association. He is Chancellor of the International Elmendorf AFB for the Alaska Air National Guard and relocating Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine and member of the 176th Wing from Kulis ANGB to Elmendorf AFB. the International Academy of Astronautics. He is Honorary Craig has an extensive private sector background, with over 15 Member of the Austrian, Brazilian, Colombian, Greek, Mexican, year’s aviation consulting experience. He has conducted airport Slovanian and Turkish Societies of Aviation/Aerospace Medicine. master planning, environmental planning, economic feasibility He is a faculty member at Wright State University School of studies, and facilities location planning both in the US and Medicine, the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, internationally. and the National University of Colombia School of Medicine. Craig also served in public office, starting in 1985 with his Dr. Antuñano has received 72 awards and recognitions for his election to the Anchorage Assembly, where his leadership academic, administrative, and research achievements. capabilities were demonstrated as he twice served as Chair of the body. He was appointed by Governor Frank Murkowski in 2002 as the Commissioner, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and was promoted to General Officer with subsequent assignment as The Alaska National Guard Adjutant General. He was retained by Governor Sarah Palin as both Commissioner and Adjutant General, later being appointed by her in July 2009 as the Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska. A position he held until December 2010. Craig earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also has a Masters Degree in Public Administration Craig E. Campbell from Golden Gate University, and a Masters Degree in National Craig Campbell joined Alaska Aerospace Corporation as President Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Craig and Chief Operating Officer in February 2011. His background and his wife, Anne Marie, live in Eagle River, Alaska; have two includes 35 years aerospace experience in the United States Air grown daughters and four granddaughters. Craig is a licensed Force and Alaska Air National Guard, culminating as The Adjutant pilot. General, Alaska National Guard. Craig is professionally trained as an Air Traffic Controller. His military experience included logistics and supply, long range planning, executive staff support at the headquarters level, and finally serving as Vice Commander, 168th Air Refueling Wing, Alaska Air National Guard prior to his appointment to General Officer. been a contributing editor of Popular Science and has written for Newsweek, Air&Space/Smithsonian and other publications. A graduate of Brown University, Chaikin served on the Viking missions to Mars at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was a researcher at the Smithsonian’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies before becoming a science journalist in 1980. Andrew Chaikin Award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for three decades. Writerdirector and explorer James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Aliens of the Deep) has called him “our best historian of the space age.” Chaikin is best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, widely regarded as the definitive account of the moon missions. First published in 1994, Kelvin Coleman this acclaimed work was the main basis for Tom Hanks’ 12-part Kelvin Coleman currently serves as the Senior Advisor for HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, which won the Space Transportation Development in the Federal Aviation Emmy for best miniseries in 1998. Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/ Chaikin’s newest books, co-written with Victoria Kohl, are Voices AST) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Coleman’s role is to strategize, plan, from the Moon (VikingStudio) featuring excerpts from his and advance FAA/AST initiatives to foster growth, expansion, and conversations with Apollo astronauts, and Mission Control, This competitiveness of the U.S. Commercial Space Transportation is Apollo (Viking Childrens) a book for young readers illustrated sector. Principal to Coleman’s responsibilities is the fostering and withpaintings by Apollo moonwalker Alan Bean. Both were improvement of cooperation and partnering amongst