NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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  Wayne Hale

  Strategic Partnerships, SOMD

To help spread interest in NASA and space exploration.

Thirty-one years of government service with NASA, flight controller for 10 early shuttle missions, Flight Director for 41 shuttle missions, Deputy and then Program Manager for the Space Shuttle program during return to flight following Columbia, currently attached to Bill Gerstenmaier’s SOMD staff to build strategic partnerships with other agencies, commercial interests, foreign governments, and academia.

BS Mechanical Engineering - Rice University, Houston Texas, 1976, MS Mechanical Engineering - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 1978.

To give an insider’s look at NASA

This is my only passion.