WASHINGTON, July 16,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator
Bill Nelson announced Tuesday Dr.
Kurt Vogel, associate administrator
for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is retiring
from the agency. NASA Langley Research Center Director Clayton Turner will become the acting associate
administrator for STMD, and NASA Glenn Research Center Deputy
Director Dawn Schaible will become
acting Langley center director. The changes are effective
immediately, and for Turner and Schaible, these will be temporary
assignments.
"I'd like to thank Dr. Vogel for his service at NASA and wish
him well in the future," said Nelson. "Our Space Technology Mission
Directorate and Langley Research Center are in good hands with
Clayton and Dawn, and I look forward to continuing to work with
them as we lead NASA into the future."
Dr. Vogel has served as the head of STMD since January. Before
leading STMD, Vogel served as director of space architectures and
was chair of NASA's Agency Cross-Directorate Federated Board. Vogel
has more than 30 years of U.S. government service, primarily in the
Defense Department, as a technical leader, senior program manager,
and chief technologist.
Turner has been Langley's center director since September 2019 and has served the agency for more
than 30 years. He has held several roles at NASA Langley, including
engineering director, associate center director, and deputy center
director. Throughout his NASA career, he has worked on many
projects for the agency, including: the Earth Science Cloud-Aerosol
Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation Project; the
materials technology development Gas Permeable Polymer Materials
Project; the Space Shuttle Program's Return to Flight work; the
flight test of the Ares 1-X rocket; the flight test of the Orion
Launch Abort System; and the entry, descent, and landing segment of
the Mars Science Laboratory.
At NASA Langley, Schaible will lead a diverse group of more than
3,000 civil servant and contractor scientists, researchers,
engineers, and support staff, who work to
advance aviation, expand understanding of
Earth's atmosphere, and develop
technology for space exploration. At NASA Glenn, Schaible
has shared with the center director responsibility for planning,
organizing, and managing the agency level programs and projects
assigned to the center. Before becoming Glenn's deputy director in
February 2023, Schaible was the
director of engineering for Langley. Prior to that, Schaible was
appointed the NASA deputy chief engineer after serving as the
manager of the Systems Engineering Office for the NASA Engineering
and Safety Center. She began her career with NASA at the
Kennedy Space Center in 1987, where she held a number of lead
engineering and management positions for the Space Shuttle and
International Space Station Programs.
To learn more about NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate,
NASA's Langley Research Center, and NASA's Glenn Research Center,
visit:
https://www.nasa.gov
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