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On Friday (Aug. 10, 2007), NASA Administrator Michael Griffin named Robert D. Cabana, deputy director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, to replace Richard J. Gilbrech as center director at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. As director of Stennis, Cabana will oversee all operations of NASA's primary center for rocket propulsion testing and the Applied Research and Technology Project Office. Stennis is a multi-agency center with operations or offices for 30 government agencies. "With the spacecraft engine development work planned during the next few years, Stennis is a key to our future beyond low Earth orbit, and replacing Rick as its director is a difficult task," Griffin said. "We are lucky to have in Bob Cabana a highly experienced center deputy, test pilot, astronaut and engineer to fill this position. Few people have given more to NASA and to spaceflight than Bob. While he can do anything and could fill nearly any job at NASA, I am personally thrilled that he has accepted this opportunity to step up to the next level of our agency's senior management." Cabana was selected as an astronaut in 1985, flying twice as a space shuttle pilot and twice as commander, accumulating more than 1,000 hours in space. Cabana served in a number of management positions supporting the astronaut office and the International Space Station program, as well as serving as NASA liaison to the Russian space agency. He has served as the Johnson Space Center deputy director in Houston since 2004. He is a native of Minnesota and a 1971 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
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