Doobie-ous Distinction

NASA today announced the members of its new Exploration

Systems Advisory Committee. They include Dr. Kenneth M. Baldwin, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California-Irvine; Dr. Amy Kronenberg, program leader for radiation biology at the

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and retired Air Force Col. Larry Graviss, vice president of Sverdrup Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn. Oh, and also Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, a missile defense analyst in Beverly Hills, Calif. Yeah, that's the same Skunk Baxter who played guitar for the Doobie Brothers--and whose second career in the aerospace world appears to be, ahem, skyrocketing.