John Hines - Chief technologist and manager of the astrobionics group at NASA Ames Research Center. PHOTO/NASA
Nano satellites opened up space exploration to a wider world.
At NASA, John Hines was founding father of the first of its kind GeneSat-1 satellite spacecraft. The 5 kg (11 pound) GeneSat-1 carried bacteria inside miniature laboratories, and the nano satellite was launched in December 2006 as the payload on Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket which delivered the Air Force TacSat 2
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