NASA Veteran to Head Kennedy Space Center
From Times Wire Services
Veteran space official James W. Kennedy was named director of Kennedy Space Center as NASA prepares to return the shuttle fleet to flight after the Columbia disaster in February.
He succeeds Gen. Roy Bridges, who was appointed to lead NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia earlier this month.
Kennedy first came to NASA in 1968 in the space center’s aerospace engineering cooperative education program. He rejoined the agency in 1980 as a project engineer for the shuttle.
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