Alice Bowman

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Alice Bowman (* 1960 in Richmond ) is an American scientist and head of operations for the New Horizons mission to Pluto . She is the first woman to lead such a mission at NASA .

Origin and education

Bowman grew up in Richmond, Virginia. As a child she was interested in the Gemini program and in 1969 watched the Apollo 11 moon landings on television . She studied physics and chemistry in college and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia .

Career

At the beginning of her work she was employed in the armaments industry, where she developed infrared detectors and researched the development of chemotherapies in the field of cancer research.

She appeared as an engineer in the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of Johns Hopkins University and intended to arriving in pursuing ballistic intercontinental missiles to work. She is the head of the university's Space Mission Operation Group and Mission Operations Manager (MOM) of the Mission Operations Center (MOC) for the New Horizons project . Bowman leads a team of around 40 people and personally checks each line of program code before it is sent from the control center to the spacecraft.

Memberships

Bowman is an honorary member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the International SpaceOps Committee.

Awards and honors

The asteroid "146040 Alicebowman", discovered by the American astronomer Marc William Buie in the Kitt Peak National Observatory on February 27, 2000, was named after her. The official naming was published on July 11, 2018 by the Minor Planet Center .

family

Alice Bowman is married and has one son. In her spare time she plays clarinet and bass, with a special interest of the Bluegrass - Music applies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Cool Jobs: Probing Pluto, These scientists and engineers worked together to take New Horizons to the dwarf planet, by Ron Cowen, February 16, 2017, In: sciencenewsforstudents.org (accessed April 22, 2020 )
  2. ↑ a b c d Extending Science: NASA's Space Science Mission Extensions and the Senior Review Process, Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions, National Academies, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Space Studies Board, ISBN 978-0-309-44878-9 , January 29, 2017 in Google Book Search - USA
  3. ↑ The Women who Power NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto, by Tricia Talbert, July 12, 2015, In: NASA.gov (accessed April 23, 2020)
  4. ↑ AIAA announces Class of 2019 Associate Fellows, September 6, 2018, In: EurekAlert.org (accessed April 23, 2020)
  5. ↑ Alicebowman, In: The International Astronomical Unin Minor Planet Center (accessed April 22, 2020)
  6. ↑ Minor Planet Circulars ... published on behalf of Divison F of the International Astronomical Union, July 11, 2018, p. 16, In: minorplanetcenter.net (PDF, English) (accessed April 23, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Bowman, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowman, Alice F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia