The Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 3, 1999
May 3, 1999
VOL. 28, NO. 33

  

What's Ahead for NASA?

Johns Hopkins Gazette Online Edition

A telescope on the moon. Space stations. Space tourism. Missions to Mars. Full constellations of commercial satellites.

This is a balanced picture of the world of aerospace in the year 2040, according to Leslie Hebb, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who has just won a $250 scholarship awarded by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium for her essay "NASA in the Year 2040."

Graduate student Leslie Hebb (right) with Anne Anikis, assistant director of the Space Grant Consortium.

"NASA's role in this future will be to promote and create the best possible innovative science without losing sight of the needs, desires and interests of the everyday American," Hebb wrote. "NASA cannot forgo true, ground-breaking research at the expense of high-profile, high-publicity projects just for the public and forge ahead with fantastic specialized science that only few can comprehend."

Hebb competed against students across the Hopkins campus, according to Richard Henry, director of the consortium. She was given the award April 26 in a ceremony attended by faculty and graduate students from the department.


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