President Appoints Space Commission

01/30/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Via SpaceRev: Appointments to the Presidential Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy:

bq.

Carly Fiorina, chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (this one I just don't get)

Michael P. Jackson of Virginia.

Laurie Ann Leshin, a planetary geochemist at Arizona State University. (not much known here. The only reference I can find is something called the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee from NASA)

Retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles.

Paul Spudis, a visiting scientist with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. (You can find Paul on the Space Frontier Foundation's Return To The Moon Board)

Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Former Rep. Robert S. Walker, R-Pa.

Mars scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Some of these I simply don't understand. Especially Carly. I can't see how she'd have any time to spare for this considering how much work HP needs. I'd hate to have to chair this group of very disparate view points.

Update: According to this article its because she moved her yacht?