posted August 22, 2006 03:26 PM               

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Steve Lindsey will be replacing Kent Rominger as the Chief of the Astronaut Office. Michael Bloomfield has been named the Deputy of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate. These changes take affect October 1.

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posted August 23, 2006 05:20 AM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
...Michael Bloomfield has been named the Deputy of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate.

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posted August 23, 2006 08:05 AM               

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Originally posted by sfurtaw:
What is the job description of the Deputy of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate?

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The Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD) is responsible for overall planning, direction, and management of flight crew operations and Johnson Space Center (JSC) aircraft program activities.

These responsibilities include but are not limited to selecting and training astronaut candidates; determining flight crew training and flight crew simulation requirements; recommending specific flight crew assignments; training and certifying payload specialists; conducting public relations activities in support of NASA programs; participating in the development of timelines and procedures; providing flight crew perspective in the development of new programs; and contributing to the development, acquisition, maintenance and safe operation of the training, administrative, and research support aircraft and supporting equipment and facilities at JSC.

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posted August 23, 2006 09:21 AM               

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Deke Slayton, Alan Shepard, Thomas Stafford, John Young, Daniel Brandenstein, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Robert Cabana, Kenneth Cockrell, Charles Precourt, Kent Rominger and Steven Lindsey.

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posted August 23, 2006 09:31 AM               

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Ellen Ochoa, Ph.D., is named the Director of Flight Crew Operations (FCOD) effective September 20, 2006, succeeding Captain Kenneth D. Bowersox. Captain Bowersox will continue to serve as the Director of FCOD through the upcoming launch and landing of
STS-115. At that time, he will be named to a position on the Center Director's staff pending his retirement from the Navy.

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posted August 24, 2006 10:19 AM               

• Deke Slayton (Sep. 1, 1962 - Nov. 1963)
  
• Alan Shepard (Nov. 1963 - July 1969)
  
• Tom Stafford (July 1969 - June 1971)
  
• Alan Shepard (June 1971 - Aug 1, 1974)
  
• John Young (Jan. 14, 1974 - April 15, 1987)
  His deputy was Paul Weitz.
  
• Dan Brandenstein (April 27, 1987 - Oct. 1992)
  His Deputy was Steven Hawley.
  
• Robert Gibson (Dec. 8, 1992 - Sep. 6, 1994)
  His deputy was Linda Godwin.
  
• Robert Cabana (Sep. 6, 1994 - Oct. 1997)
  His deputy was Linda Godwin.
  
• Ken Cockrell (Oct. 1997 - Oct. 1998)
  
• Charlie Precourt (Oct. 1998 - ?)
  His deputy was Kent Rominger.
  
• Kent Rominger (? - Sep. 2006)
  His deputy were A. Thomas and P. Whitson.

posted September 01, 2006 11:29 PM               

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NASA Management Astronauts Announce Changes, Retirement

Veteran astronauts and Flight Crew Operations Directorate managers Ken Bowersox and Kent Rominger have announced intentions to depart from NASA.

Both will be vacating their current positions later this month. Pending his retirement from the Navy, Bowersox will move to a position supporting Michael Coats, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Rominger will leave the agency in September to pursue an opportunity in the private sector.

"Ken and Kent have each made invaluable contributions to space exploration and to this country,” said Coats. "Their dedication and leadership have been a key contribution to the safe return of the space shuttle to flight and to the resumption of the International Space Station's assembly in orbit. We'll miss them and we wish them the best."

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa will become director of flight crew operations. Ochoa has served as deputy director of flight crew operations since 2003. She will be the first female and the first Hispanic to lead that office, which oversees the Astronaut Office and Aircraft Operations. Ochoa is a veteran of four spaceflights.

Succeeding Ochoa as deputy director of flight crew operations will be astronaut Mike Bloomfield, a veteran of three space shuttle flights including commander of STS-110. Astronaut Steve Lindsey, who commanded space shuttle mission STS-121 in July, will become chief of the Astronaut Office. Lindsey has flown four shuttle missions.

Bowersox became the director of flight crew operations in February 2004 after four shuttle flights and a long-duration mission on the International Space Station. He served as a commander of both the space shuttle and the International Space Station and led on-orbit activities in science operations, Hubble Space Telescope servicing and space station operations.

Rominger has served as chief of the Astronaut Office since 2002. He has completed five shuttle flights, commanding two and serving as pilot on three. He has logged more than 1,600 hours in space. His missions included two shuttle flights to the International Space Station. Rominger also flew on both the longest and second longest shuttle missions in history.

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posted September 04, 2006 11:49 AM               

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Originally posted by OV-105:
There has still not been a Mission Specialist who has been the Chief of the Astronaut Office.

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(Pilots don't like to be bossed around by non-pilots. Look at Ochoa's move to director, flight crew ops... she gets an experienced Shuttle commander/test pilot as her deputy. Sox didn't need that.)

On the other hand, the deputy chief job almost always goes to a mission specialist.

posted September 04, 2006 02:39 PM               

However, mission specialist Ochoa was acting chief astro in late 2002, between the Precourt and Rominger reigns...

posted November 21, 2007 09:25 PM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Captain Bowersox will continue to serve as the Director of FCOD through the upcoming launch and landing of STS-115. At that time, he will be named to a position on the Center Director's staff pending his retirement from the Navy.

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