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Posted on 11/03/2005 12:01:16 PM PST by RightWhale
NASA appoints Constellation Program managers
NASA NEWS RELEASE Posted: November 2, 2005
Jeffrey Hanley has been appointed manager of NASA's Constellation Program. He will lead development of the nation's new spacecraft and launch system, which as part of the Vision for Space Exploration will take astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. Mark Geyer was appointed as deputy program manager.
The Constellation Program will be based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. All of NASA's 10 field centers have program roles and responsibilities. The program will develop launch and transfer vehicles, landers and other systems. Initial missions will launch early in the next decade.
Hanley was chief of Johnson's flight director's office since January 2005. Prior to that assignment, he was a flight director for space shuttle and international space station missions since 1996. He began his career with NASA in 1989 in the payload operations branch of Johnson's Mission Operations Directorate. He was a payload officer in mission control for 13 shuttle missions, including the first to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
A native of Springfield, Ill., Hanley also served as flight director for two Hubble servicing missions. He was the lead flight director for the first six-month expedition to the space station. He served as space station deputy chief flight director for two years before he was promoted to chief of the flight director office.
Hanley graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He received a master's of science in natural and applied sciences from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Geyer most recently served as manager of System Engineering and Integration for the Development Program Division of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
He earned a bachelor's in engineering and a master's in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University. Prior to joining Johnson in 1990 as a systems engineer supporting the lunar and Mars exploration office, Geyer worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Geyer began his NASA career in the new initiatives office working on the Mars rover sample return project and later the assured crew return vehicle.
In 1994, Geyer joined the space station program office, and he served as the Increment 0 lead for the space station from late 1998 until April 2000. He served as manager of the program integration office for space station, and in June 2004, he was named manager of operations integration.
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What is Increment 0?
It's part of a program management technique. Now they call it spirals and constellations. Critical path, Gannt, PERT, etc.
From what I can pick up on Google it seams the ISS year is split up into increments, for ground control, of time sort of like the separations in missions on the ISS itself or for space shuttle missions.
Nope. Increments are ISS time-on-orbit with no shuttle present. Stage Flights are shuttle ops at ISS.
Increment 0 would be the mission activities leading up to the first occupied ISS mission.
Increment 0 involved a great deal of up front planning and unmanned work, which will be of benefit to early CEV ops and the like.
Wait a sec. I might have read you wrong, and perhaps I just restated your post?
=o)
Then why send the e-mail? Read the introduction, verbatim:
"There is one item that I would like to make you aware of for the upcoming [public affairs office] event ... and for future [public affairs] events later in the mission. This item is not even worth mentioning other than wanting to make sure that you are not surprised by it in a question from a reporter,"
NASA in typical CYA mode, of course.
But then came the second e-mail, from Jeff Hanley. It said only "Rick, FYI". Attached was the video recording of the takeoff, showing the incident and the actual damage.
And that was the only action out of NASA that attempted to save the lives of the shuttle crew.
Yes, for the simple reason NASA wants to employ as many people as possible and will appoint the same micromanagers who have failed every time they have been given the opportunity.
yep.. a bit top heavy
Jeff and Mark are good guys. I've worked with both.
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