The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States created in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration, disbanded in 1993, and reestablished
National Space Council meeting in 2019, at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Pence (center) speaks at the sixth meeting of the revived council in 2019
The second meeting took place in the high bay of the Space Station Processing Facility at KSC, Feb 2019.
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys was a New York Times Best Seller a
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…Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin Homer Hickam, Author of Rocket Boys and former NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center engineer Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama…
Homer Hickam Jr. (left) and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Art Stephenson during a conference at Morris Auditorium on July 16, 1999
Cover of Hickam's book, "Rocket Boys" Published in 1998.
Hickam (seated) in West Virginia governor Jim Justice's office, 2017