Space Shuttle Program Manager Has New Title, Duties
NASA announced last week the selection of N. Wayne Hale, Jr. as
NASA's deputy associate administrator for strategic partnerships on
Friday. John Shannon, a Mission Management Team chairman and Hale's
deputy since November 2005, will succeed him as the Space Shuttle
Program manager.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- already
hampered at times by the "analysis paralysis" that faces any agency
relying on a political funding mechanism -- finally looks to be on
track with a vision to return to the Moon, then Mars. But some fear
the changing of the guard in the White House will plunge NASA back
into the bog of indecision.
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