Dr.
Jim Green began his NASA career in 1980 at Marshall Space Flight
Center’s Magnetospheric Physics Branch where he developed and
managed the Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN), NASA’s precursor
to the Internet. From 1985 to 1992 he served as Head of the National
Space Science Data Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center,
followed by a 13-year stint as Chief of the Space Science Data
Operations Office. In 2005 he was named Chief of the Science Proposal
Support Office, where he served until August 2006 when he was
appointed Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division.