The Inaugural John Glenn

Memorial Symposium

Powering Innovation from the Sky to the Stars

July 10-12, 2019 Global Center for Health Innovation

Cleveland, Ohio

An American Astronautical Society Symposium

in conjunction with the

NASA Glenn Research Center

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YOUR BRAND.OUR AUDIENCE.

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IN CONJUCTION WITH

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Program Wednesday, July 10 1:00pm Tour:NASAGlennTestFacility–PlumBrookStation6:00pm GlennSymposiumWelcomeReception–GreatLakesScienceCenter SponsoredbyAerojetRocketdyneThursday, July 11 7:00am Registration/Networking/ContinentalBreakfast8:00am IntroductionandWelcome

• CarolLane,President,AmericanAstronauticalSociety

8:15am OpeningRemarks• JanetKavandi,Director,NASAGlennResearchCenter,FormerAstronaut

8:30am OpeningSpeaker

• JamesW.Morhard,DeputyAdministrator,NASAHQ

9:00am We’reBigFans:ADiscussionofAtmosphericPropulsion• GrahamWarwick,TechnologyManagingEditor,AviationWeek&Space

Technology(Moderator)• DarinDiTommaso,GeneralManager,AdvancedTechnologyOperation,

GeneralElectric• MarkWilson,ChiefOperatingOfficer,Rolls-Royce• GeoffHunt,SeniorVicePresident,Engineering,Pratt&Whitney

10:05am BacktotheMoon:TheLunarGateway

• WilliamH.Gerstenmaier,AssociateAdministrator,HumanExplorationandOperations,NASAHQ

10:25am NetworkingBreak10:45am MacauleyGrantWinningPresentations11:05am FlySoftly:AdvancesinLowBoomSupersonics

• EdWaggoner,Director,IntegratedAviationSystemsProgram,AeronauticsResearchMissionDirectorate,NASAHQ(Moderator)

• GeneHolloway,VicePresidentofAdvancedPrograms,AerionSupersonic• DavidRichardson,Director,AirVehicleDesign&Technology,

SkunkWorks,LockheedMartinAeronauticsCompany• LauraSmith-Velazquez,SeniorHumanFactors&SystemsEngineer,

CollinsAerospace

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12:15pm LuncheonwithGuestSpeaker

• FredKennedy,Director,SpaceDevelopmentAgency1:45pm MakingItHappen:CriticalTechnologiesInvestments

• DouglasTerrier,ChiefTechnologist,NASAHQ(Moderator)• KenBowersox,DeputyAssociateAdministrator,HumanExplorationand

OperationsMissionDirectorate,NASAHQ,FormerAstronaut• RobertPearce,DeputyAssociateAdministrator,AeronauticsResearch

MissionDirectorate,NASAHQ• JimReuter,AssociateAdministrator,SpaceTechnologyMission

Directorate,NASAHQ• ThomasZurbuchen,AssociateAdministrator,ScienceMission

Directorate,NASAHQ2:50pm TheLegacyofJohnGlenn

• DavidGlenn,SonofJohnGlenn3:10pm NetworkingBreak3:30pm SpacePropulsion

• TrudyKortes,Chief,HumanExploration&SpaceOperations,NASAGlennResearchCenter(Moderator)

• FranklinChangDíaz,FounderandCEO,AdAstraRocketCompany,FormerAstronaut

• JonathanCirtain,VicePresident,AdvancedTechnologyPrograms,BWXTechnologies

• JimMaser,SeniorVicePresident,Space,AerojetRocketdyne• MitchellWalker,ProfessorofAerospaceEngineering,GeorgiaTech-

CollegeofEngineering

4:35pm SpacePowerSystems• CarolLane,President,AmericanAstronauticalSociety(Moderator)• TraceyBishop,DeputyAssistantSecretaryforNuclearInfrastructure

ProgramsOfficeofNuclearEnergy,USDepartmentofEnergy• JohnHamley,Manager,RadioisotopePowerSystemsProgram,NASA

GlennResearchCenter• GregSemrau,SeniorSpecialProjectsEngineer,MoogInc.,Spaceand

DefenseGroup• LarryTrager,Director,In-SpacePowerSystems,AerojetRocketdyne

6:00pm Reception–St.ClairBallroom

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Friday, July 12 7:00am Registration/Networking/ContinentalBreakfast8:00am PowerandPropulsionElementProjectOverview

• MichaelJ.Barrett,PowerandPropulsionElementProjectManager,NASAGlennResearchCenter

8:20am CommunicationsandAutonomy

• ThomasKashangaki,SystemsDirector,TheAerospaceCorporation(Moderator)

• TimothyDeaver,Director,USSpacePrograms,AirbusDefenseandSpaceInc.

• DawnEmerson,Chief,CommunicationsandIntelligentSystems,NASAGlennResearchCenter

• NelliMosavi,VanAllenProbesProjectManager,SpaceExplorationSector,AppliedPhysicsLaboratory,JohnsHopkinsUniversity

• BadriYounes,DeputyAssociateAdministrator,SpaceCommunicationsandNavigation,NASAHQ

9:25am HumansReturningtotheMoon–MorethanFlagsandFootprints

• JanetKavandi,Director,NASAGlennResearchCenter,FormerAstronaut(Moderator)

• ScottAltman,SeniorVicePresident,CivilOperations,ASRCFederal,FormerAstronaut

• RobertCurbeam,VicePresident,BusinessDevelopment,SpaceSystems,NorthropGrummanInnovationSystems,FormerAstronaut

• SteveLindsey,VicePresident,SpaceExplorationSystems,SierraNevadaCorporation,FormerAstronaut

• SandyMagnus,ExecutiveDirectorEmeritus,AmericanInstituteofAeronauticsandAstronautics,FormerAstronaut

10:30am NetworkingBreak10:50am Hypersonics

• MarkLewis,Director,ScienceandTechnologyPolicyInstitute,InstituteforDefenseAnalyses(Moderator)

• RodneyBowersox,Director,TexasA&MNationalAerothermochemistryandHypersonicsLaboratory

• Ravi RavinderChona,SeniorScientistandDirector,StructuralSciencesCenter,AerospaceSystemsDirectorate,AirForceResearchLaboratory

• JayDryer,DeputyAssociateAdministratorforPrograms,AeronauticsResearchMissionDirectorate,NASAHQ

12:00pm LuncheonandAwardsPresentationswithGuestSpeaker• CharlieBolden,FormerNASAAdministrator,FormerAstronaut

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Thank you to the 2019 Planning Committee

JanetKavandi,HonoraryChair–NASAGlennResearchCenter

GaleAllen–ASGSRVinceBilardo–TheAerospaceCorporationRonBirk–TheAerospaceCorporation

MichaelCiancone–NASAJohnsonSpaceCenterAlanDeLuna–AmericanAstronauticalSocietyJoshFreeh–NASAGlennResearchCenter

RebeccaGriffin–GriffinSpaceCarlosGrodsinsky–ZinTechnologies

LoriManthey–NASAGlennResearchCenter

KathyNado–NASAHQMarlaPeréz-Davis–NASAGlennResearchCenter

AshleyRiser–AerojetRocketdynePatrickRouin–AmericanAstronauticalSociety

BrettSilcox–BWXTechnologiesFrankSlazer–AerojetRocketdyne

JimWay–AmericanAstronauticalSociety

Thank you for attending the Glenn Symposium

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