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Bryant Cramer Program Manager New Millennium Program  Bryant Cramer is a Program Manager at GSFC responsible for both for New Millennium Program (NMP) missions assigned to GSFC and for those GSFC missions that belong within the Office of Space Science theme known as the Structure and Evolution of the Universe (SEU). Bryant has a Bachelor of Chemistry from Northwestern, an MD from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Engineering also from Northwestern. He also studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Bryant is keenly interested in missions that are dependent on new technologies. He joined the New Millennium Program shortly after its inception and has made a number of valuable contributions to the NMP in terms of how it implements technology validation flights. Recently, he was assigned the responsibility for the SEU missions and this responsibility includes the missions contained in the Beyond Einstein Initiative. In 1978 Bryant joined NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In 1980 he went to NASA Headquarters as the Program Scientist of the newly established Life Sciences Flight Program and led the effort to define the payload of the first Spacelab mission dedicated entirely to life sciences. The following year he served as the Manager of the same program. In 1982 he joined the Space Station Task Force and held a number of positions in System Engineering culminating in managing that Office at the time the Program Office returned to JSC in late 1994. Bryant came to GSFC in 1994 after it was decided to move the Space Station Program Office back to JSC in Houston. He subsequently joined the GSFC Systems Engineering Office and served as the Senior Systems Engineer on the EOS Aqua Project. In November 1995 Bryant joined the newly formed New Millennium Program and has managed all of the NMP activities at GSFC until the present. More recently, he also assumed responsibility for the GSFC missions within the SEU theme that include the missions in the current Beyond Einstein Initiative. |