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Alice Bowman
American engineering manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Alice Boman.
Alice Bowman (born 1960) is the Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. She is the first woman to fill that role at the Applied Physics Laboratory,[1][2] taking on the position in 2002 specifically for the duration of the three billion-mile space journey.[3][4]
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Alice Bowman | |
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![]() Alice Bowman during the New Horizons extended mission in 2019 | |
Born | 1960 (age 63ā64) |
Education | BA, physics and chemistry, University of Virginia |
Known for | Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons mission to Pluto |
Children | Noah Carter Bowman |
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Institutions | Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County, Maryland |
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