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Singularity University National Aeronautics and Space Administration The NRP POST A Publication of NASA Research Park Spring 2015 Messages from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Please Welcome Deputy Administrator Announcement of New Dava Newman Center Director I am pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. The appointment is effective immediately. Continued on page 9 NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman walks to a meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, on Monday, May 18, 2015, her first day on the job at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Please join me in welcoming Deputy Administrator Dava Newman to NASA! Dr. Newman took her Oath of Office on Friday, and today is her first full day on the job. On a personal note, I have known and admired Dava for several decades. Her talents and skills as an educator and technological innovator will bring a new energy to our NASA leadership team, Dr. Eugene L. Tu, the new Director of Ames and I’m ecstatic to have her on board. Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA, Continued on page 5 Dominic Hart. Selection of NASA Ames Research Center Deputy Center Director: A Message from Eugene Tu, Center Director It is with great pleasure that I announce design, aerothermodynamics, information technology the selection of Dr. Thomas A. Edwards and aviation operations. He is a graduate of Princeton as the NASA Ames Research Center University, with Master’s and PhD degrees in aeronautics Deputy Center Director effective and astronautics from Stanford University. As a Sloan Fellow, Monday, May 18, 2015. I am very he holds a Master of Science in Management from the excited to have Tom join me in this Stanford Graduate School of Business. new capacity as we take our center Dr. Edwards was recently the Director of Aeronautics at into the future. NASA Ames Research Center, with responsibility for research Dr. Edwards began his career with in aviation operations, flight vehicle technology and design NASA in 1983, and has served in a and fundamental aerodynamics. He was responsible for Dr. Thomas A Edwards, New Dep- variety of research and managerial the operation of national flight simulation and wind tunnel uty Center Director. assignments in fields including com- facilities. Dr. Edwards also is a Fellow of the American Institute Photo credit: NASA putational fluid dynamics, aircraft of Aeronautics and Astronautics. NRP Post IN THIS ISSUE NRP WELCOMES 1 | Messages from Charles Bolden Please Welcome Deputy Administrator Alidyne Dava Newman & Announcement of New Location: Building 19 Floor 2, Room 2006 Ames Center Director Commencement: 15th March, 2015 1 | Messages from Center Director Alidyne’s mission focus is embedded systems, signal processing/ Selection of NASA Ames Research Center design, modeling environments and spaces and spacecraft design Deputy Center Director engineering. It’s R&D efforts at Ames will be applicable to small 2 | New Partners spacecraft, cube sats, ISS payload support and robotic sensing NRP Welcomes design. Alidyne has been an R&D partner of NASA through its 2 | NASA Research Park support of ISS missions since 2011 and will continue to further NASA Research Park Wins Bright partnership opportunities. Idea Award 3 | SETI Institute Teton Aerospace, LLC Location: Building 19 Floor 1, Room 1070C Pascal Lee Wins Children’s Book Prize Commencement: 1st April, 2015 4 | Moon Express An Audacious Plan to Mine the Prof Bob Twiggs, Co-Founder and President and a professor of Surface of the Moon Astronautical Engineering at Morehead SU, helped develop the origi- nal concepts for the CricketSat, CanSat, CubeSat and the PocketQube 6 | Rhombus Power Inc. for educational applications for use in Space, and was selected by Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Rhombus as Space News in 2010 as one of the 10 space professionals “That made TETON New Product Innovation Leader a difference in space”. Teton Aerospace’ vision is to demonstrate 6 | Rhombus Power Inc. a new more flexible, low cost, rapid development methodology for Mercury Headed to International space scientists and spacecraft engineers. They plan to capitalize Space Station on the 3D printing experience, the long term accomplishments with the development, launch and operation of CubeSats and the new 7 | NASA Research Park NRP & DOC work together for FemtoSat flight demonstration using PocketQubes. National Event 8 | Singularity University 24-year-old Wins India’s First Smart City Contest; Winning Entry Focuses on NASA Research Park Wins Bright Idea Award Pollution Free Cities for India 10 | Singularity University Source: Charles S. Clark, Government Executive th Google Pledges $3M to put Students 19 February 2015 through Singularity University Program 10 | Photozig PepBlast Motion Pictures, the Slide Show Maker with Music, is Launched 11| Vasper Liquid Cooling Technology Increases Exercise Efficiency 12 | RMV Technology Group LLC NRP Research Center Veteran Owned Company Receives SBA Business Award & NIPHLE Packaging Engineering Award 13| Scanadu Scanadu Raises $35 Million From Fosun, Tencent for Its Health Scanner 13| Made In Space Made in Space, Now Taking Orders 14 | skyTran Bright Idea Award Seal. Photo Credit: Charles S. Clark, Government Executive skyTran™, Inc., Entered into an The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Ken- Agreement with Sustainable Systems nedy School of Government, Harvard University, recognized NASA Research Park of Colorado as part of the 2015 Bright Ideas program. They described NASA Research Park as 15 | NeuroVigil a world-class, shared-use research & development and education campus for NeuroVigil Closes 2nd Finiancial Round industry, academia, non-profits, and government, a center for innovation and 16 | NeuroVigil entrepreneurship with a unique community of scientists, engineers, students and Neurotech Goes Global: Tens of educators with a shared mission. Thousands of Brains Coming Online 2 www.nasa.gov NRP Post Pascal Lee Wins Children’s Book Prize The Prize was awarded on February 14, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in By: Seth Shostak San Jose, California. 23rd January 2015 Human journeys to Mars could become a reality in the 2030s, says NASA. Con- sequently, some of today’s kids already have their eyes set on becoming to- morrow’s Mars explorers. To help them prepare for this epic voyage, SETI In- stitute scientist Pascal Lee has written Mission: Mars, a nonfiction children’s book that reads like a training manual. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the renowned journal Science. Its annual Science Books & Films (SB&F) prize, co-sponsored by Subaru of America, Inc., celebrates outstand- ing works that foster an understanding and appreciation of science in young readers. Mission: Mars earned the top prize in the Middle Grades category. Published by Scholastic, Mission: Mars is geared for kids ages 8 to 13. Besides being scientifically probing and technically rigorous, the book is written in lively language and is richly illustrat- ed. The book also draws on ongoing research at NASA and elsewhere to make human missions to Mars a reality, including Lee’s own efforts at the SETI Institute and at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Pascal Lee was born in Hong Kong and grew up in France. He studied physics and geology at the University Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute located in NASA Research Park of Paris, and got his doctorate in astron- authored the award winning children’s book ‘Mission: Mars’. Photo credit: SETI omy and space sciences from Cornell University. He joined the NASA Ames It’s his first time out of the gate writing The ability of books to stimulate inter- Research Center in 1997, and then a book, but Pascal Lee, a SETI Insti- ests in young people is well known to the SETI Institute in 2000. Lee’s research tute researcher who studies Mars, has Lee: “When I was growing up, humans focuses on Mars, especially the history taken first place. were walking on the Moon. I picked up of water on that planet. He also studies every book I could find that showed Lee has been designated a winner Mars’ moons, which are featured in his the insides of spacecraft and the work- of the American Association for the book. An expert on polar regions that ings of spacesuits,” he says. Lee went Advancement of Science/Subaru can serve as Mars analogs, Lee has on to elaborate his childhood interest Science Books and Film Prize for Ex- led over 30 expeditions to the Arctic with a research career focused on the cellence in Children’s Books. Entitled and Antarctica. history of water on the Red Planet and Mission: Mars, Lee’s short tome not its two small moons. Mission: Mars is Lee’s first book. “I only conveys fascinating facts about wanted to write a book that would the Red Planet, but by describing Beyond fostering an interest in the inspire the kids of today to join human- the nuts and bolts of future human sciences, Lee speculates that some ity’s next giant leap in space. Above expeditions shows middle school of the readers of his book may be all, I wanted them to not fear science, students that science is not a subject among the first humans to actually but embrace it”, said Lee. to be feared, but is understandable explore Mars. and compelling. Continued on page 7 www.nasa.gov/researchpark 3 NRP Post An Audacious Plan to Mine the Surface of the Moon By: Dominic Basulto 19th March 2015 The MX-1 lunar lander is the center- piece of a plan by Moon Express to mine the surface of the moon. Sometime in late 2016, a small robotic spacecraft the size of a coffee table will attempt to soft land on the surface of the moon.
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