Brigadier General Steve "Bucky" Butow

Brigadier General Steven J. Butow is former Commander of the 129th Rescue Wing, Air Combat Command, with 3,500 flying hours in H/MC-130P, T-38 and T-37 aircraft. As a researcher with the SETI Institute, he worked on instrument concepts for Mars surface soil analysis at NASA Ames Research Center, and was Co-PI on two NASA/USAF airborne science campaigns. He was recognized for outstanding achievement by the Space Science Division in 1999, and received an Ames Honor Award as a member of the first astrobiology mission in 2000. He holds a B.A. in Physics & Astronomy from San Jose State University, M.S. in Air & Space Strategic Studies from the University of Maryland, and is an invited member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.