{"id":29015,"date":"2011-10-18T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=29015"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:37:08","slug":"ucf-hires-nasa-veteran-to-lead-space-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-hires-nasa-veteran-to-lead-space-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Hires NASA Veteran to Lead Space Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S. Alan Stern will help the institute, a part of the 海角直播, develop projects that align UCF and Florida with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/space\/\">new emphasis in the space industry<\/a> \u2013unmanned flights, commercial flight, science missions and technology development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCF\u2019s Florida Space Institute is in an excellent position to leverage Florida, UCF and the State 海角直播 System into new research and education roles with NASA, with other space agencies and with the budding commercial space industry,\u201d Stern said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to lead FSI into this new era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The institute, located at Kennedy Space Center, is a collaboration among 10 universities that combine their educational programs, facilities, engineering support and grants to create a strong synergistic structure for space research and education. In his new role at UCF, Stern will lead the institute and coordinate industry, research and administrative efforts in space science, engineering and education.<\/p>\n<p>Stern, who has a doctorate in astrophysics and planetary science from the 海角直播 of Colorado, has the perfect blend of experience to lead such a unique institute.<\/p>\n<p>The former NASA science chief is an experienced researcher with more than 200 publications, and he also is a specialist in space science instrumentation. Stern has been involved as a researcher in 24 suborbital, orbital and planetary space missions, and he has led the development of eight scientific instruments for NASA space missions. In 2010, he became a suborbital payload specialist trainee. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Stern hasn\u2019t slowed down since leaving NASA.<\/p>\n<p>He is training to fly a series of suborbital space research missions with Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace in 2013-2014. They are among the companies working to give citizens a chance to fly in space along with scientists who need regular access to space to complete important research.<\/p>\n<p>Stern also is principal investigator of the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and he is the chief scientist and mission architect for the Moon Express Google Lunar X-Prize Team. He also continues to serve as a vice president for the Southwest Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have someone of Dr. Stern\u2019s caliber,\u201d said M.J. Soileau, vice president for research and commercialization. \u201cHe will help us more effectively develop projects to support the space industry in the state and the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCF has a long and unique history tied to the space program at Kennedy Space Center. UCF was formed in 1963, first as Florida Technological 海角直播 in part to train workers for the Apollo program. Since then, UCF\u2019s faculty members and students have continued to keep close ties to the space industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S. Alan Stern will help the institute, a part of the 海角直播, develop projects that align UCF and Florida with the new emphasis in the space industry \u2013unmanned flights, commercial flight, science missions and technology development. \u201cUCF\u2019s Florida Space Institute is in an excellent position to leverage Florida, UCF and the State 海角直播 System into new research&hellip;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,1566,1775,3196,4361],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-29015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-alan-stern","tag-engineering","tag-florida-space-instit","tag-mj-soileau","tag-space"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Hires NASA Veteran to Lead Space Institute | 海角直播 News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"S. 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