Mary Lynne Dittmar President and CEO Coalition for Deep Space Exploration

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Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar is President and CEO of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, an industry trade group supporting human exploration, science, commerce, and American leadership in space. Under her leadership the Coalition has grown from 5 companies to more than 70 over the past four years and is a recognized source for policy, technical and business information in the aerospace and defense sector.

Earlier in her career Dr. Dittmar managed the mission operations group for
The Boeing Company on the International Space Station Program. Later,
she acted as a special advisor to the NASA Astronaut Office before her
appointment as Boeing Chief Scientist for Commercial Utilization of the
ISS. More recently she was Senior Policy Advisor to International Space
Station National Laboratory. She has also served as a senior advisor to
NASA, the DoD, and the FAA.

Mary Lynne is a Fellow of the National Research Society and an Associate
Fellow of the American Institute for Astronautics and Aeronautics. From 2012-2014 she served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Human Spaceflight, and is beginning her third term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Space Studies Board of the National Academies. She is also a member of the Users’ Advisory Group of the National Space Council and of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee for the FAA. Dr. Dittmar resides in Washington, D.C.