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Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is a large, publicly supported, non-government and non-profit organization that has many research projects related to astronomy. It was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, and has members from 125 countries around the world. The society's mission...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. A charismatic television personality, he...
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- May 1997
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and...
Bill Nye
William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy", is an American comedian, television host, science educator and mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the children's science show Bill...
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Bruce C. Murray
Bruce C. Murray was born November 30, 1931 in New York, NY. He is a professor emeritus of planetary science and geology at Caltech and was Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from April 1, 1976 to June 30, 1982.
He received his Ph.D. in...
Louis Friedman
Louis Friedman is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson. He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx. Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray.
In 1961 he earned his Bachelor...
James F. Bell, III
James (Jim) F. Bell III (born July 23, 1965) is an American astronomer and Professor at the Cornell University Astronomy Department. He received his B.S. in Planetary Science and Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, his M...
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Heidi Hammel
Heidi B. Hammel (born on March 14, 1960) is a Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director of Research at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
In 1994, she led the team that investigated Jupiter's visible-wavelength response to the impact...
Wesley Huntress
Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. is president of the Planetary Society in the United States and Director of the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution. Huntress spent much of his career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also teaching as a...
Christopher McKay
Christopher P. McKay is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. McKay received his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and his bachelor's degree...
Elon Musk
Elon Musk (born 1971) is a South African-American physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors. He is currently the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and...
George Yancopoulos
George D. Yancopoulos, born in 1959, spent his early childhood in Woodside, New York; Chief scientific officer and president of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. Dr. Yancopoulos has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the...
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