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Scope and Contents Leestma oversaw the Johnson Space Center’s role in the future exploration program’s that were to fulfill the President’s vision for exploration. He later took charge of the [b]JSC Advanced Planning Office [/b]where he helped to plan JSC’s strategy in order to be fully ready for the challenges of the future, including leading human missions to the moon and Mars. Toward the end of his NASA career, he lead [b]JSC’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office [/b]where he provided the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Leestma oversaw the Johnson Space Center’s role in the future exploration program’s that were to fulfill the President’s vision for exploration. He later took charge of the [b]JSC Advanced Planning Office [/b]where he helped to plan JSC’s strategy in order to be fully ready for the challenges of the future, including leading human missions to the moon and Mars. Toward the end of his NASA career, he lead [b]JSC’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office [/b]where he provided the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Leestma oversaw the Johnson Space Center’s role in the future exploration program’s that were to fulfill the President’s vision for exploration. He later took charge of the [b]JSC Advanced Planning Office [/b]where he helped to plan JSC’s strategy in order to be fully ready for the challenges of the future, including leading human missions to the moon and Mars. Toward the end of his NASA career, he lead [b]JSC’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office [/b]where he provided the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Leestma oversaw the Johnson Space Center’s role in the future exploration program’s that were to fulfill the President’s vision for exploration. He later took charge of the [b]JSC Advanced Planning Office [/b]where he helped to plan JSC’s strategy in order to be fully ready for the challenges of the future, including leading human missions to the moon and Mars. Toward the end of his NASA career, he lead [b]JSC’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office [/b]where he provided the...

Scope and Contents This series is broken down into six sub-series representing the various NASA administrative positions Leestma held throughout his career. There are numerous NASA memos, correspondence, documents, reports, briefings, International Space Station planning information; Preliminary Assessments of the Russian/US/International Partners Space Station Design Option; Flight Crew Operations documents; Safety Review Findings; Hubble Space Telescope documents, among many others. Please see the breakdown...

Scope and Contents The David C. Leestma papers document his personal experience as an astronaut during the early years of the Space Shuttle program and as a NASA manager and director. Included are papers related to the three missions for which he served as a mission specialist; STS-41-G, STS-28, and STS-45. Leestma later served as manager and director at the Johnson Space Center's Astronaut Office, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, Advanced Planning Office and for initiatives such as the Space...