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Dr. Wesley Huntress is currently the director of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, located in Washington, DC, where he leads an interdisciplinary group of scientists in the fields of pressure science, astrobiology, petrology and biogeochemistry.
Before assuming this role last September, Huntress served for five years as NASA's Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Science (OSS), with responsibility for all of NASA's space-science programs: planetary exploration, astrophysics, space physics and the emerging field of astrobiology.
During his tenure, these NASA programs produced numerous major discoveries, just as NASA's "faster, better, cheaper'' initiatives dramatically reduced mission costs and significantly increased mission launch rates.
Huntress was also director of NASA's Solar System Exploration Division from 1990 to 1993 following two years as special assistant to NASA's Director of the Earth Science and Applications Division | 