Wayne Hale
Former NASA flight director and Space Shuttle Program manager; blogs about how the shuttle was flown.
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- Wayne Hale is an American engineer who spent his career at NASA, from 1978 to 2010.
- He was a flight director in Mission Control for forty-one Space Shuttle missions between 1988 and 2003, then deputy manager and, from September 2005, manager of the Space Shuttle Program.
- He retired on July 31, 2010, as Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships, and kept writing his blog after he left.
Key facts
- Born
- July 5, 1954, Clovis, New Mexico1
- Education
- BS mechanical engineering, Rice University (1976); MS mechanical engineering, Purdue University (1978)1
- At NASA
- Propulsion officer from 1978; Space Shuttle flight director from 1988 to 2003 (41 missions); Space Shuttle Program manager from 2005; retired July 31, 20101
- Awards
- NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1999); NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1992); NASA Space Flight Awareness Leadership Award (2002)1
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