Mon, Jul 21, 2008
Will Assume New Duties August 4
NASA
Administrator Michael Griffin announced last week that Rob Strain
will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, MD. Strain is currently the head of the Space
Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in
Laurel, MD. He will assume his duties as center director on August
4.
Goddard Space Flight Center is located approximately 6 miles
northeast of Washington, near the Capital Beltway. The center is a
major US laboratory for developing nd operating unmanned scientific
spacecraft. Goddard manages many of NASA's Earth observation,
astronomy and space physics missions. Goddard includes several
other NASA installations, most significantly the Wallops Flight
Facility near Chincoteague, VA, and the Goddard Institute for Space
Studies in New York.
"My association with Rob Strain spans years of shared
experiences in both industry and at the Applied Physics
Laboratory," said Griffin. "He is one of the finest managers I
know, and complements those talents with equally impressive 'people
skills' and an unbending sense of personal integrity. I am truly
looking forward to his addition to a superbly talented NASA
management team."
Strain previously served as the associate department head and
assistant department head for operations at the Applied Physics
Lab's Space Division. Prior to his work at the Applied Physics Lab,
Strain held various executive positions with Axiom Corporation,
Orbital Sciences Corporation and Fairchild Space and Defense
Company.
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