He will also be remembered as a man of immense warmth and kindness, whose success as a leader, teacher and administrator of science owed much to his collaborative spirit, generosity and good humour.
Mr Whitehorn reckons that, subject to the appropriate permissions, White Knight Two could offer zero-G flights for around $1,000 each, a fifth of the fare now charged.Alan Stern, until recently the associate administrator of science programmes at NASA, America's space agency, reckons the combination of White Knight Two and SpaceShipTwo could also revolutionise the study of atmospheric physics.
Administrators of science funding agencies who lack such information may base funding allocations across scientific disciplines on judgments about where the science is most exciting or where other support is lacking, to the detriment of students encouraged toward fields, however exciting, without waiting jobs...
This work calls for a serious discussion by the research communities within the government, academia and industry as well as among historians and administrators of science, policy analysts and makers (see, for example, [57]).
The NASA officials scheduled to speak at the news conference include John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate; Paul Hertz, the astrophysics director; William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator; and Charles Sobeck, deputy project manager.
It works perfectly," says Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator of space science.
"We're ready to fly," said Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, associate administrator for science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Her decades of experience in the university's health system include positions as administrator of surgical sciences and vice president of strategy and market research.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMII) and others have challenged administrators of undergraduate science programs to provide more opportunities for research experiences (National Science Foundation, 2000; Wenzel and Karukstis, 2004; Anderson et al., 2011), echoing a number of articles on science education published over the past century (Mariken et al., 2009).
Looking for current life on Europa is one of the most important things we could do". The funding for Clipper prompted the Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, to remark, "I'm very excited about the support for science from this administration.
"There are many, many risks and uncertainties," said Dr. Edward Weiler, associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration science division.
