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Richard R. Fisher

Dr. Richard R. Fisher[1], the first Director of the Heliophysics Division for the NASA Science Mission Directorate retired from NASA on October 21, 2011.

Dr. Fisher received a B.A. (Mathematics, with Honor) from Grinnell College[2] (1961), and a Ph. D. (Astrogeophysics) from the University of Colorado [3](1965). He has published numerous papers in the scientific journals. Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Fisher was an associate professor of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i[4]; a staff scientist at Sacramento Peak Observatory[5] of the Air Force Research Cambridge Laboratory, Sunspot, NM; and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research[6] in Boulder, CO.

Dr. Fisher was appointed Co-Investigator for the NASA SO-55 (1974) and SO-52 (1976), both ATM SkyLab[7] experiments. He served as Principal Investigator and Project Manager for the development of the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory[8] 1974-1988.

Dr. Fisher joined the Goddard Space Flight CenterCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). as the Solar Physics Branch Chief of the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics (Code 685)http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/heliophysics/solar/ in 1991. He was later promoted to the position of Laboratory Chief, (Code 680)[9].

At GSFC he was the Principal Investigator of the SPARTAN 201[10] White Light Coronagraph experiment and served as SPARTAN 201 Mission Scientist for the STS- 56, STS-64, STS-69, STS-87, and STS-95 space shuttle missions. He was the GSFC UVCS[11] Project Scientist for the SOHO mission and also served as TRACE[12] Project Scientist.

The SPARTAN 201 White Light Coronagraph flight instrument system, the SPARTAN 201 re-useable satellite and the space shuttle Discovery launch vehicle which was used to carry the instrument and space craft into orbit on three of the SP201 missions, are currently on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center[13] in Chantilly, VA.


In 2002, Dr. Fisher was selected as the Director of the Sun-Earth Connections Division of the Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ, and was later designated Division Director of the Heliophysics Science Division[14].

Under his leadership the Heliophysics Division[15] launched and operated investigations selected by the NASA. These included the Sounding Rocket program[16], the Explorer Program[17], the Living With a Star program[18], and the Solar Terrestrial Probes program[19].

The heliophysics flight program from 2002 to 2014 consisted of fourteen flight missions (24 spacecraft), including, TIMED[20], RHESSI[21], ST-5, Hinode[22] (collaboration with JAXA), STEREO[23], AIM[24], THEMIS[25], TWINS[26], CINDI[27], IBEX[28], SDO[29], RBSPCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). (Van Allen Probes)[30], IRIS[31], and MMS[32]. This fleet, with the 1965 SOHO[33] mission (a collaboration with ESA), and ACE(1997)[34] has enabled multi-viewpoint, multi- sensor observations of the dynamic processes of the Sun, the solar wind, and the responses of the Earth’s physical systems. The capability of these research assets contribute daily to national and international space weather operations and activities.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).http://swrc.gsfc.nasa.gov/main/swnewsar2158</ref>

Payload selection, design and construction phases of the Solar Probe Plus[35] and Solar Orbiter[36] missions (collaboration with ESA) were begun during Fisher’s tenure at NASA HQ, and are elements of the current flight development program.

Richard Fisher is the recipient of a Presidential Rank Award in the Senior Executive Service[37] of the United States of America (2007) and was presented with NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal (2011)[38]. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center of Greenbelt, Maryland.



References

  1. ^ http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/richard.r.fisher
  2. ^ http://www.grinnell.edu
  3. ^ http://www.cu.edu
  4. ^ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu
  5. ^ http://www.nso.edu
  6. ^ https://ncar.ucar.edu
  7. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Telescope_Mount
  8. ^ http://www2.hao.ucar.edu/mlso/mlso-home-page
  9. ^ http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/content/uploadFiles/highlight_files/lasp03.pdf
  10. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/spartan/
  11. ^ https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/uvcs/
  12. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/sunearthsystem/main/trace-retires.html
  13. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center
  14. ^ www.heliophysicsdivisionnasa.gov
  15. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliophysics
  16. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket
  17. ^ http://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov
  18. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/smd-programs/living-with-a-star/
  19. ^ http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov
  20. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/timed/
  21. ^ http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/
  22. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/index.html
  23. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html
  24. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/index.html
  25. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/main/index.html
  26. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/twins/
  27. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/twins/
  28. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/ibex/
  29. ^ http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov
  30. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/main/index.html
  31. ^ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/iris/index.html
  32. ^ http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov
  33. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/soho/index.html
  34. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/ace/
  35. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/solar-probe/
  36. ^ http://science.nasa.gov/missions/solar-orbiter/
  37. ^ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/presidential-rank-awards/
  38. ^ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/presidential-rank-awards/
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