NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman visits JSC on June 8
2015-06-04
Newly sworn in NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman is coming to Johnson Space Center on June 8, where she will host an all-hands meeting at 10 a.m. in the Teague Auditorium. If you would like to submit a question for consideration in advance or during the All Hands, please email it here.
Newman was nominated in January by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April to serve as the deputy administrator of NASA. She was sworn in on May 15 and began her duties with the agency on May 18.
Along with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Newman is responsible to the agency administrator for providing overall leadership, planning and policy direction for NASA. Newman performs the duties and exercises the powers delegated by the administrator, assists the administrator in making final agency decisions and acts for the administrator in his absence by performing all necessary functions to govern NASA operations and exercises the powers vested in the agency by law. Newman also is responsible for articulating the agency’s vision and representing NASA to the Executive Office of the President, Congress, heads of federal and other appropriate government agencies, international organizations and external organizations and communities.
“I’m very excited to be at NASA,” Newman said. “I’m looking forward to being a part of the agency’s work to expand humanity’s reach into space, advance our journey to Mars and strengthen America’s leadership here at home.”
Prior to her tenure with NASA, Newman was the Apollo Program professor of astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Her expertise is in multidisciplinary research that encompasses aerospace biomedical engineering.
Newman’s research studies were carried out through spaceflight experiments, ground-based simulations and mathematical modeling. Her latest research efforts included advanced spacesuit design, dynamics and control of astronaut motion, mission analysis and engineering systems design and policy analysis. She also had ongoing efforts in assistive technologies to augment human locomotion here on Earth.
Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, an introductory engineering textbook published by McGraw-Hill, Inc., in 2002. She also has published more than 250 papers in journals and refereed conferences.
As a student at MIT, Newman earned her doctorate in aerospace biomedical engineering in 1992 and two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy in 1989. She earned her Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1986.
Newman was nominated in January by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April to serve as the deputy administrator of NASA. She was sworn in on May 15 and began her duties with the agency on May 18.
Along with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Newman is responsible to the agency administrator for providing overall leadership, planning and policy direction for NASA. Newman performs the duties and exercises the powers delegated by the administrator, assists the administrator in making final agency decisions and acts for the administrator in his absence by performing all necessary functions to govern NASA operations and exercises the powers vested in the agency by law. Newman also is responsible for articulating the agency’s vision and representing NASA to the Executive Office of the President, Congress, heads of federal and other appropriate government agencies, international organizations and external organizations and communities.
“I’m very excited to be at NASA,” Newman said. “I’m looking forward to being a part of the agency’s work to expand humanity’s reach into space, advance our journey to Mars and strengthen America’s leadership here at home.”
Prior to her tenure with NASA, Newman was the Apollo Program professor of astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Her expertise is in multidisciplinary research that encompasses aerospace biomedical engineering.
Newman’s research studies were carried out through spaceflight experiments, ground-based simulations and mathematical modeling. Her latest research efforts included advanced spacesuit design, dynamics and control of astronaut motion, mission analysis and engineering systems design and policy analysis. She also had ongoing efforts in assistive technologies to augment human locomotion here on Earth.
Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, an introductory engineering textbook published by McGraw-Hill, Inc., in 2002. She also has published more than 250 papers in journals and refereed conferences.
As a student at MIT, Newman earned her doctorate in aerospace biomedical engineering in 1992 and two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy in 1989. She earned her Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1986.
NASA Deputy Administrator Dava J. Newman. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Newman walks to a meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on May 18, her first day on the job at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls