Science and Technology
- Milt Heflin, First Chief Flight Director and Former General Director, NASA, Johnson Space Center
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Milt Heflin monitoring data in Houston Mission Control during the launch activities of Soyuz TMA-5 on October 14, 2004.
- Dr. Dwight E. Adams, former Director of the FBI Laboratory, the largest and most complex laboratory of its kind in the world with an operational budget of more than $100 million. Dr. Adams was a member of the FBI’s research team that developed the DNA techniques first used in 1988. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award as Distinguished Executive; the highest award given in the Federal Government. He is currently Director of the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute.
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