Alice Bowman | Reaching for New Horizons | NEAF Talks

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Filmed April 2016

Alice Bowman covers the voyage of NASA’s historic first mission to Pluto – which culminated with a flyby of the distant dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.

Who is Alice Bowman?
ALICE BOWMAN, is the Mission Operations Manager (MOM), who leads the team controlling NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on its voyage to Pluto and beyond. Bowman works at the “mission control” center at Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory.
After studying physics and chemistry at the University of Virginia, the Richmond (Va.) native joined the California Inst. of Technology, where she developed tumor-targeting micelles (which have successfully been used to treat cancer and fungal infections); programmed computer simulations to study how explosions affect soil compression and wave propagation; and developed silicon-based semiconductors that detected infrared waves emitted by cruise missiles and stars. From there, Bowman was a satellite technical advisor to U.S. Space Command, advising the agency on various infrared-signature detections. She joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in 1997, and has served on various spacecraft teams such as the Midcourse Space Experiment, CONTOUR and New Horizons.

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What a phenomenal mission New Horizons has been, and will continue to be! Thank you all to those that worked on and supported New Horizons! Your hard work, passion, dedication, and ingenuity has made discovering the Plutonian-Charonian system, the Kuiper Belt,  and beyond possible! It is beyond spectacular! This is what I live for! Thank you so very much! :-D

KarbineKyle
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My MOM from another family. Thank you Ms. Bowman for this beautiful talk.

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The video should emphasize the slides, not the speaker.

vicplichota
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Came here after searching her name from a recent Ted Video.

Great scientist.

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