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Article: NASA names new manager for shuttle program.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2003
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Byline: Gwyneth K. Shaw
WASHINGTON _ NASA appointed a veteran of three spaceflight centers Friday to take over the shuttle program as it moves into the critical phase of returning the three remaining shuttles to space.
William Parsons, who has been the director of Stennis Space Center in Mississippi since last August, will replace Ron Dittemore, who announced last month that he will step down. Dittemore will leave after the independent board investigating the Feb. 1 loss of the shuttle Columbia issues its report this summer.
A former Marine who has worked at Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and Stennis, Parsons joined the agency in ...