Hinners Point Above Floor of Marathon Valley on Mars “The summit takes its informal name as a tribute to Noel Hinners (1935-2014). For NASA’s Apollo program, Hinners played important roles in selection of landing sites on the moon and scientific training of astronauts. He then served as NASA associate administrator for space science, director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA […]

Noel Hinners, former NASA scientist, dies at 78, AP “Keith Cowing, who runs the blog NASA Watch, said Hinners was a reader of his website and would post comments. He called him “one of the last of a certain breed” of NASA scientists from the early days of space exploration programs. “He had one foot firmly placed in the old NASA and one in the new NASA,” Cowing said. Hinners […]