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Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington 		March 5, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

Laura Brown
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
(Phone: 281/283-7565)

RELEASE: 03-097

NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO THE COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD

     Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) Chairman Admiral Hal 
Gehman today asked NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe to appoint three 
new members to the CAIB. The appointments were immediately approved.

The new members are: Nobel Prize laureate in Physics Douglas Osheroff; 
former NASA astronaut and physicist Dr. Sally Ride; and George 
Washington University Space Policy Institute Director Dr. John 
Logsdon. 

Dr. Douglas D. Osheroff was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics. 
He shares the prize with two colleagues from Cornell University for 
their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. Osheroff received his BS 
from California Tech and Ph.D. from Cornell. He is the G. Jackson and 
C.J. Wood Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford 
University. He was a member of the technical staff at the Department 
of Solid State and Low Temperature Research at Bell Laboratories in 
the 1970s. 

As a graduate student at Cornell before that, Osheroff and his thesis 
advisors, David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson, discovered the first 
of three superfluid phases of liquid helium-3, at a temperature only 
about two-thousandths of a degree above absolute zero. Osheroff is a 
leader in the study of superfluidity and of the properties of thin 
superconducting films. He served as Chairman of the Cornell Physics 
Department from 1993 until August 1996. The Nobel Prize caps a long 
list of awards Osheroff has received. A member of the National Academy 
of Sciences, he has won the Simon Memorial Prize, the Oliver Buckley 
Prize, and was named a MacArthur Fellow. Osheroff also won a Walter J. 
Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Sally Ride is a former NASA Astronaut and the first American woman 
in space. She is a Professor of Space Science at the University of 
California at San Diego (UCSD). 

Ride received her BS in Physics, BA in English, MS and Ph.D. in 
Physics from Stanford University. Her first spaceflight was aboard the 
Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983. Her second was also aboard the 
Challenger in 1984. During those flights she deployed communications 
satellites, operated the robot arm and conducted experiments in 
materials, pharmaceuticals, and Earth remote sensing. Training for her 
third spaceflight was interrupted by the Space Shuttle Challenger 
mishap. Ride served as a member of the Presidential Commission 
investigating the accident and chaired its subcommittee on Operations. 
She then served as NASA's first director of Strategic Planning. Ride 
spent two years at Stanford University's Center for International 
Security and Cooperation. In 1989 she became the Director of the 
University of California's California Space Institute, and joined the 
UCSD faculty. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, member 
of the National Research Council's Space Studies Board and has served 
on the Boards of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and
the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the President's Committee 
of Advisors on Science and Technology. Ride has written four science 
books for children: To Space and Back; Voyager; The Third Planet, and 
The Mystery of Mars. 

Dr. John Logsdon is Director of the Space Policy Institute at George 
Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where 
he is also Professor of Political Science and International Affairs.

He received his BS in Physics from Xavier University and Ph.D. in 
Political Science from New York University. Dr. Logsdon's research 
interests focus on the policy and historical aspects of U.S. and 
international space activities. He has written numerous articles and 
reports about space policy and history. He recently completed the 
basic article on "space exploration" for the new edition of 
Encyclopedia Britannica. Logsdon is a member of the NASA Advisory 
Council and the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee of 
the Department of Transportation. He is a fellow of the American 
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the International 
Academy of Astronautics and Vice Chair of its Commission on Space 
Policy, Law and Economics. Logsdon recently served on the Committee on 
Human Space Exploration of Space Studies Board, National Research 
Council. He served on the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board 
and NASA's Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee. He has been a 
fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was 
the first holder of the Chair in Space History of the National Air and 
Space Museum.

Admiral Gehman also requested NASA astronaut Michael J. Bloomfield 
(Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force) be appointed as an Astronaut Advisor to the 
board. Administrator O'Keefe agreed and Bloomfield will begin his new 
assignment at the direction of Admiral Gehman. 

Bloomfield was selected for the astronaut corps in 1994 and is 
currently qualified as a pilot. He is a veteran of three Space Shuttle 
flights. Bloomfield is a former chief of safety in NASA's Astronaut 
Office, and he currently serves as chief astronaut instructor. 
Bloomfield will assume the responsibilities currently performed by 
former astronaut Bryan O'Connor, who will return to NASA Headquarters 
in his role as NASA Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission 
Assurance in Washington.

Additional information about the Columbia Accident Investigation Board 
is available on the Internet at:       http://www.caib.us

For information about NASA and the Space Shuttle on the Internet, 
visit:           http://www.nasa.gov

Information about Michael Bloomfield is available on the Internet at:
 http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/bloomfie.html

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