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Walter A Petersen

2023/2/2

Seminar, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Science and the Path from Here to There Page 1 Science and the Path from Here to There Walter A. Petersen, Chief Science Research and Projects Division, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center “A good reason to stick around and get your Ph.D. at CSU is that you never know where that Ph.D. is going to take you…….but usually it’s somewhere exciting!” Prof. Bill Gray, ca. ~1995 Page 2 Science Test and Technology Development: Enabling the next generation science missions • X-ray and Cryogenic Test Facility (XRCF) • Stray light test facility • Normal Incidence optics (UVOFIR) mirror technology development • Black Holes, Neutron Stars, Nebula, and Pulsars in the X-ray • X-ray grazing incidence optics • Gamma-ray bursts, timedomain/multi-Messenger • High-energy particles and sources Astrophysics: Origins and Physics of the Cosmos Science Project management • Management of science flight missions, …