Vanessa Wyche, deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, has been appointed to serve as the facility's top official on an acting basis. She will temporarily succeed Mark Geyer, who is stepping
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Rex Walheim, astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, will retire from NASA on July 27, 2020, concluding his 36-year career of government service. "Rex has been a great leader both as an
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Vanessa Wyche, former director of the exploration integration and science directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, has been appointed as deputy director of the installation. NASA said Wednesday Wyche will assist JSC
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Mark Geyer, acting deputy associate administrator for technical for the human explorations and operations mission directorate at NASA, has been appointed director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston in a move
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Mark Kirasich, formerly deputy manager of NASA’s Orion program, has moved to the manager role of the space launch program. Kirasich succeeds Mark Geyer, who was appointed as deputy director of Johnson
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An unmanned Orion spacecraft completed its maiden test flight Friday, a 4.5-hour excursion intended to provide data for NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers to assess the capsule’s potential for manned space exploration.
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