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Holly Stevens

Holly Stevens Deputy Executive Director, NASA ISS Advisory Committee Holly Stevens has more than 35 years of government relations experience, including serving as an assistant to the NASA administrator at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; commissioner of the Texas Aerospace…

Dennis McSweeney

Dennis McSweeney Executive Director, NASA ISS Advisory Committee Dennis McSweeney serves as the deputy director of the Human Exploration and Operations Division in NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations. His office works closely with NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate…

Mark T. Vande Hei

Mark T. Vande Hei ISS Advisory Committee Member Col. Mark T. Vande Hei (Ret.) is a retired U.S. Army colonel who finished his Army career as an astronaut. He earned his commission in the U.S. Army through the Reserve Officer…

Nicole Stott 

Nicole Stott  ISS Advisory Committee Member Nicole Stott is an astronaut, aquanaut, engineer, artist, author of “Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And Our Mission to Protect It,” and most importantly, a…

William Shepherd

William Shepherd ISS Advisory Committee Member Capt. William Shepherd, USN (Ret.), graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971 and served with U.S. Navy Special Warfare units in the Pacific and European theaters. In 1984, he was selected as a…

Josef Schmid

Josef Schmid ISS Advisory Committee Member Maj. Gen. Joe Schmid, USAFR (Ret.), M.D., is a NASA/USAF (Ret.) flight surgeon and family physician at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. He is the lead for Orion (Artemis) medical operations. He is a…

Frank Groen

Frank Groen Deputy Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance Dr. Frank J. Groen is the deputy chief of NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA). He is responsible for executive leadership, policy direction, functional management and coordination for agencywide…

Ginger Kerrick

Ginger Kerrick ISS Advisory Committee Member Ginger Kerrick is currently the chief strategy officer of Barrios Technology, a woman-owned aerospace company in Houston. Prior to joining Barrios’ executive team in 2021, she served in multiple senior leadership roles at NASA’s…

Daniel Heimerdinger

Daniel Heimerdinger ISS Advisory Committee Member Daniel Heimerdinger is an aerospace subject matter expert with more than four decades of technical and management experience with NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Space Force, and the commercial space industry.…

Michael Greenfield

Michael Greenfield ISS Advisory Committee Member Michael A. Greenfield is a distinguished aerospace and defense expert with more than five decades of experience in safety, mission assurance, and technical leadership across NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and industry-leading organizations. He…