May 30, 2008

Curious Staff Change at MSFC

Daniel Schumacher named director of key NASA Marshall Center office

"Prior to accepting his new position, Schumacher was deputy project manager of Marshall's Lunar Lander Project Office from 2007 to 2008. He led a team of more than 60 civil service and contractor employees and directed an annual technology budget of more than $60 million to develop hardware and integrated systems for crewed moon landings in coming decades."

Editor's note: Please tell me why a guy who runs an overtly engineering/mission oriented activity is suddenly put in charge of a policy office like this? Where is the press release about the person who is replacing him in his previous position?


Posted by kcowing at May 30, 2008 12:39 AM
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Perhaps because policy positions across the board (gov't) LACK engineering perspectives, and are way over dominated by legal types?? Believe me, the whole topic of science/technology/industrial policy as it relates to technology transfer was the original topic of my dissertation - which I chucked because the whole field is run by lawyers who have no concept of tech generation. I'm happy to see them put an engineer (and an Industrial Engineer at that) as a policy lead.

Posted by: Scott D at May 30, 2008 7:45 AM

From Wikipedia:

The Lunar Lander Project Office originally planned to be established at Marshall, has been appointed for development at JSC. This office will be responsible for performing early trade studies and developing requirements for the Lunar Surface Access Module (now the Lunar Lander), the capsule that will transport crew members to and from the surface of the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Space_Flight_Center

Online docs show that there has been a co-Deputy PM at JSC for at least a year.

Third item on this page:

http://exploration.nasa.gov/announcements/allcategories2007.html

Posted by: CBG at May 30, 2008 8:50 AM

Maybe because his replacement hasn't been named yet?

Posted by: Joe at May 30, 2008 11:58 AM

There won't be a replacement because the program was moved to JSC last year and there is already a Deputy Program Manager at JSC.

Posted by: CBG at May 30, 2008 12:49 PM
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