Wesley Huntress

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Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. is president of the Planetary Society in America and Director of the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution. Huntress spent much of his career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also teaching as a professor at the associated California Institute of Technology, before promotions took him to NASA Headquarters. This culminated in Huntress serving as NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, starting in 1993. Huntress became an outspoken critic of reductions in the growth of NASA's science budget, and on Thursday, August 17, 2006, he was asked by administrator Michael Griffin to resign his position with NASA's advisory committee.

Huntress was awarded a B.S. in Chemistry from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Stanford University.

During the 1980s, Huntress did game programming on the Apple II computer as a hobby, creating simulation games for subLogic, Edu-Ware and Electric Transit.

[edit] External links

• Wesley Huntress at MobyGames
• Wesley Huntress at the Internet Movie Database