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Throughout his career he has combined his scientific and technical skills to lead and manage a number of large projects and programs. He has been heavily involved in basic research and technology development throughout his career and managed the laboratory directed R&D program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Craig was the payload manager for the NuSTAR Small Explorer mission where he was responsible for managing a large multi-institutional effort to develop technology for and then deliver the successful NuSTAR instrument in 2012. He most recently managed the ICON Explorer mission for NASA, launched in 2019, delivering an observatory with 6 separate instruments.

Craig is currently chairing NASA Standing Review Boards for the XRISM, PACE and PUNCH missions and two US instruments on JAXA’s MMX mission. Dr. Craig also serves on the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group, providing technical assessments to the US Government.

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Hendrix is the principal investigator on NASA’s Toolbox for Research and Exploration, or TREX, program to develop tools and research methods for exploration of airless surfaces in preparation for human and robotic in-situ resource utilization missions. She is a leader in the planetary community, having chaired the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society and the NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group. She also serves as a member of the NASA Advisory Council and has chaired and served on committees of the National Academies. Hendrix has been honored by the International Astronomical Union by the naming of Minor Planet 6813 Amanda hendrix and is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.

Hendrix co-authored “Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets,” published by Penguin/Random House. 

Hendrix received a Bachelor’s of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Master’s of Science and Doctoral Degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Seraphin served as the Principal Assistant Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). During this time, he served as the deputy director of the OSTP National Security and International Affairs division. He was on detail to OSTP from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was the Special Assistant for Policy Initiatives to the Director of DARPA.

Dr. Seraphin has worked on the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science’s Subcommittee on Research as a professional staff member. He has also worked in the Science and Technology Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Dr. Seraphin earned a Ph.D. in Electronic Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he performed research on silicon nanotechnology. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science with a concentration in American Government and Engineering Science with a concentration in Materials Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Seraphin is the son of Indian immigrants, and was born and raised on Long Island, NY. He currently resides in Virginia with his wife and five school-aged children.

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