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4 unusual facts about NASA Headquarters


Decadal Planning Team

DPT was quietly chartered in spring, 1999, by then-NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, in coordination with the White House Office of Management and Budget, and led jointly by the NASA Headquarters Offices of Human Spaceflight and Space Science.

Michael I. Yarymovych

In 1962 he joined NASA Headquarters as Assistant Director of Systems Engineering on the Apollo project and later moved to the Air Force as Technical Director of the Air Force Manned Orbital Laboratory, and Deputy for Requirements to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Development.

Robert A. Parker

From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he served as director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office.

Southwest Federal Center

Additionally, NASA Headquarters is located in a large building at the corner of 4th and E Streets.


Roger K. Crouch

On loan from MIT to NASA Headquarters as the Senior Scientist for the International Space Station since 2000; prior to that, on loan from MIT as the Senior Scientist for the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, NASA-HQ, 1998-2000; crew training, flight and post-flight activities 1996-1998; Lead Scientist of the Microgravity Space and Applications Division since 1985-1996.


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France A. Córdova

From 1993 to 1996, she became the youngest person and first woman to hold the position of NASA Chief Scientist, serving as the primary scientific advisor to the NASA administrator and the principal interface between NASA headquarters and the broader scientific community.

Jesco von Puttkamer

From 2009 until his death, Puttkamer provided management leadership at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on the programs of the International Space Station (ISS), for which he held special responsibilities as a Russia expert for the Russian segment and activities and daily on-orbit operation/increments, the Space Shuttle and, since 2004, President George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration, was stationed in the HQ Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD).

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Carlos Del Castillo, Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C..