NIA | Systems Analysis Lecture Series

Systems Analysis Lecture by John Logsdon

Date: April 3, 2007
Time: 1:30pm
Location: NASA Langley Research Center, H.J.E. Reid Conference Center
Additional Information: Presentation

“Apollo Lessons Learned for the Vision for Space Exploration”
Prof. John Logsdon

Prof. John M. Logsdon is Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also Professor Emeritus of Political Science and of International Affairs. Dr. Logsdon is the author of The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest and is general editor of the eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and reports on space policy and history, and authored the basic article on “space exploration” for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues and has testified before Congress on several occasions.

Dr. Logsdon is a member of the NASA Advisory Council and of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee of the Department of Transportation. In 2003 he served as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service and Public Service Medals from NASA, the 2005 John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award from the American Astronautical Society, and the 2006 Barry Goldwater Space Educator Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and former Chair of its Commission on Space Policy, Law, and Economics. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Planetary Society and former chair of the Society’s Advisory Council. He is faculty member of the International Space University and former member of its Board of Trustees.

Dr. Logsdon has served as a member of a blue-ribbon international committee evaluating Japan’s National Space Development Agency and on the Committee on Human Space Exploration of the Space Studies Board, National Research Council. He has also served on the Vice President’s Space Policy Advisory Board, the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council, NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Research Advisory Committee of the National Air and Space Museum. He is former Chairman of the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Education Committee of the International Astronautical Federation. He has twice been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was the first holder of the Chair in Space History of the National Air and Space Museum.