William Shepherd
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Capt. William Shepherd, USN (Ret.), graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971 and served with U.S. Navy Special Warfare units in the Pacific and European theaters. In 1984, he was selected as a NASA astronaut and flew on three space shuttle flights carrying satellites and scientific payloads to space. In 2000, Capt. Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts launched from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket, docked with the International Space Station, and started Expedition One’s 141-day mission in orbit. Capt. Shepherd retired from the space program in 2001 and is currently on staff as a senior researcher at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, N.J., where he lectures on applied system engineering and project management.
ISS Advisory Committee Members and Staff
Robert Cabana
Chairman, ISS Advisory Committee
William Vatine
Deputy Chairman, ISS Advisory Committee
Capt. Frank L. Culbertson, Jr.
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Charles Daniel
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Michael Greenfield
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Daniel Heimerdinger
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Ginger Kerrick
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Frank Groen
Deputy Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance
Josef Schmid
ISS Advisory Committee Member
William Shepherd
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Nicole Stott
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Mark T. Vande Hei
ISS Advisory Committee Member
Dennis McSweeny
Executive Director, ISS Advisory Committee
Holly Stevens
Deputy Executive Director, ISS Advisory Committe
Kevin Ford
Technical Advisor, ISS Advisory Committee
Robert Maiberger
Technical Advisor, ISS Advisory Committee