Bob Dempsey
{{distinguish|text=the First Nations artist Dempsey Bob}}
Robert "Dr. Bob" Dempsey is a NASA flight director for the International Space Station,[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/J05-014_prt.htm NASA press release] selected in 2005. As astronomer he worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) prior to joining the ISS project. For five years he worked in the Onboard Data Interfaces and Networks (ODIN) group and then as a Communication and Tracking Officer before being selected as a flight director in 2005.{{Cite news|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-ground-12813099/?no-ist|title=The Ground|newspaper=Air & Space Magazine|access-date=2016-11-12}} He was the lead flight director for Expedition 15, worked several ISS assembly missions including STS-122 (1E), STS-123 (1J/A), and STS-124 (1J), and was the lead for STS-130 (20A) and for ATV-2 (Johannes Kepler). He works with Boeing on the Commercial Crew Program's CST-100 ([http://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/ Starliner]) vehicle.
He was an undergraduate at University of Michigan, and received his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from the University of Toledo. He grew up in Michigan, is married to his wife Dorothea, and he enjoys cooking and traveling.{{Cite web|first=Donald|last=James|url=http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/space/dempsey.html|accessdate=February 4, 2010|title=Meet: Robert Dempsey, Ph.D.|work=NASA Quest|publisher=NASA|date=January 9, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110094702/http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/space/dempsey.html|archivedate=November 10, 2010}} Dempsey is a member of the International Astronomical Union{{Cite web|url=http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/8242/|accessdate=February 4, 2010|title=Robert C. Dempsey|publisher=IAU|archive-date=February 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222024130/http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/8242/|url-status=dead}}
Expedition 15
Dempsey oversaw the jettisoning of the {{Convert|1400|lb|adj=on|sp=us}}, refrigerator-sized Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS), along with an unused stanchion which had previously held a camera, from the International Space Station during Expedition 15. What is left of the refrigerator after re-entry impacted Earth in the summer of 2008. Dempsey stated that the decision to jettison the equipment in this required some planning, saying "It's not a decision that's made lightly. Besides the fact that it might have some use in the future, it provides space debris that could later impact the space station," and further adding that this was necessary largely due to space and timing constraints on available Space Shuttle payloads.{{Cite news|first=Dave|last=Mosher|url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070718_exp15_toss_preview.html|accessdate=February 4, 2010|title='Refrigerator-Sized' Object to be Tossed From Space Station|newspaper=Space.com|publisher=Imaginova|date=July 18, 2007}}
Bibliography
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- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993ApJS...86..599D The ROSAT All-Sky Survey of active binary coronae. I - Quiescent fluxes for the RS Canum Venaticorum systems]
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- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989ApJ...339.1059B The active chromosphere binary HD 17433 (VY Arietis)]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990ApJS...72..191S Chromospheric CA II H and K and H-alpha emission in single and binary stars of spectral types F6-M2]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993ApJS...86..293D Observations of the CA II infrared triplet in chromospherically active single and binary stars]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992ApJ...392..187D Line profile asymmetries in chromospherically active stars]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1988ApJS...68..803B H-alpha spectroscopy of active-chromosphere stars. I - Six G-K giants]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996ApJ...470.1172D Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph Observations of Variability in the RS Canum Venaticorum System V711 Tauri (HR 1099)]
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993AJ....106.2502B Extremely active long-period RS CVn binary HD 12545]
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- [http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTEAH000045000002000075000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&bypassSSO=1 Thank You for Flying the Vomit Comet]
- [https://go.usa.gov/xQbvH The International Space Station: Operating an Outpost in the New Frontier]
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