Sun, Jun 16, 2002
Tommy Holloway, Manager of the International Space Station
Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, today
announced plans to retire, effective July 3. Holloway's deputy,
William H. Gerstenmaier, will take over as program manager.
Holloway was named space station manager in April
1999 after serving as manager of the Space Shuttle program for
nearly four years. He began his career with NASA in 1963, planning
activities for Gemini and Apollo Flights at what was then known as
the Manned Spacecraft Center. He was a flight director in Mission
Control for early Space Shuttle flights and became chief of the
office in 1985.
In 1989, he was named assistant director for the Space Shuttle
Program for the Mission Operations Directorate. He served as Deputy
Manager for Program Integration with the Space Shuttle Program and
Director of the Phase I Program of Shuttle-Mir dockings before
being named Space Shuttle program manager in August 1995.
"Tommy's been a fixture with NASA for nearly four decades and his
contributions to the agency's human space flight program and the
Johnson Space Center are considerable," said Frederick D. Gregory,
Associate Administrator for Space Flight at NASA Headquarters in
Washington. "His leadership helped set the standards of safety and
success for our Space Shuttle and International Space Station
programs. I will miss him both personally and
professionally."
Gerstenmaier first joined the Space Shuttle program in 1980,
serving as Propulsion Flight Controller. In 1992, he got his first
managerial assignment for the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle project.
Gerstenmaier was selected in 1995 to be the Operations Lead in
Moscow for the first phase of the Shuttle-Mir program, serving as
lead for the ground control team.
In August 1998, he was named Space Shuttle Program
Integration Manager and in December 2000 he was selected as Deputy
Manager of the International Space Station Program. Since then,
he's been responsible for the day-to-day management, development,
integration and operations of the orbiting research
laboratory.
"Bill and Tommy have worked side-by-side for years on a variety of
projects, so I expect this to be a smooth and seamless transition,"
added Gregory. "Bill's extensive program knowledge and experience
will be a steadying force as we move forward with the International
Space Station construction and research."
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