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Dr. Colleen Hartman is currently the Board Director for the Space Studies Board as well as the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington D.C. She was the deputy center director for Science, Operations and Performance of NASA’s
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and most recently, was the Director of the Science and Exploration Directorate (Code 600). Previously she was acting Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), Deputy AA of SMD and presidential management intern, served as a senior policy analyst at the White House
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, and served as deputy division director for technology at NASA Headquarters. Hartman earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from
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in Claremont, Calif., a master's in public administration from the
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, and a master's, as well as a doctorate, in physics from the
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in Washington. Hartman has spoken both domestically and internationally at innumerable press events, including serving as the NASA press interface for many outer planets missions and launches. Her numerous awards include two of the prestigious Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Executive, the NASA Outstanding Performance Award, the Claire Booth Luce Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and the Hugh L. Dryden Memorial Space Club Award, and multiple NASA awards.


History

Hartman has served in various senior positions throughout the government, including as acting associate administrator and as the deputy associate administrator at NASA's
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and as the deputy assistant administrator at the
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. Hartman was professor of space policy and international affairs at the George Washington University's
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in Washington and continues to serve as an adjunct professor. As division director for NASA's planetary missions, Hartman was instrumental in developing innovative approaches to powering space probes destined for the farthest reaches of the
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, including in-space propulsion and nuclear power and propulsion. While at NASA Headquarters, she spearheaded the selection process for the New Horizons probe to Pluto. She also gained administration and congressional approval for an entirely new class of funded missions that are competitively selected called " New Frontiers," to explore the planets, asteroids and comets in the Solar System. After beginning her government career as a presidential management intern, she worked on Capitol Hill, as a senior engineer at NASA Goddard, as a senior policy analyst at the White House
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, and as deputy division director for technology at
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. Hartman has built and launched scientific balloon payloads, worked on robotic vision, overseen the development of the command and data handling systems for a variety of Earth-observing spacecraft, and served as NASA program manager for dozens of missions, the most successful of which was the
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. Data from the COBE spacecraft gained two NASA-sponsored scientists the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006.


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Official NASA bio

Colleen Hartman on C-SPAN on June 23, 2003 talking about the unmanned U.S. mission to Mars and science experiments to be conducted.

Goodbye Galileo - What do you do with a dying space probe? That was the question facing Dr. Colleen Hartman '77 at NASA in the summer of 2003
- Pomona College Magazine, Spring 2004, Volume 40, No. 3 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartman, Colleen Living people Year of birth missing (living people) NASA people Pomona College alumni USC Sol Price School of Public Policy alumni Catholic University of America alumni