Patrick Scheuermann (pronounced "Sherman") is the former Director of the
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first ...
located in
Huntsville, Alabama. He was named to become the center's twelfth director on September 25, 2012.
He succeeds
Robin Henderson
Robin Neely Henderson is the Associate Director, Management, of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. She was named to become the center's Acting Director effective August 3, 2012, following the retirement of the p ...
, who had served as acting director for the preceding two months.
Scheuermann served as the director of the
John C. Stennis Space Center
The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border. , it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. ...
near
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Bay St. Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States. Located on the Gulf Coast on the west side of the Bay of St. Louis, it is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of ...
from March 2010 until his appointment to Marshall.
Earlier in his NASA career, he served as legislative fellow to
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.
References
External links
Marshall Space Flight Center website
Living people
Directors of the Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA people
People from New Orleans
University of New Orleans alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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