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NASA Appoints Constellation Program Managers






WASHINGTON -- Lawrence D. Thomas has been appointed manager of NASA's Constellation Program, which manages the effort to take humans beyond low-Earth orbit and develop the next generation launch vehicle and
spacecraft.

Charles M. Stegemoeller has been appointed as deputy program manager.
He and Thomas will be based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston.

Thomas most recently served as the deputy program manager of the
Constellation Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, Ala. He began his NASA career in 1983 as an aerospace
systems engineer at Marshall's Science and Engineering Directorate.

He served in leadership positions at Marshall including manager of the
Systems Engineering and Analysis Office for the Second Generation
Reusable Launch Vehicle Program Office, and chief of the Systems
Engineering Division, Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Department.
Thomas also spent two years at Johnson as manager of the Vehicle
Analysis and Integration Office in the International Space Station
Program.

He earned a bachelor's degree in industrial and systems engineering
from the University of Alabama in Huntsville; master's degree in
industrial engineering from North Carolina State University; and
doctorate in systems engineering also from Alabama.

Stegemoeller most recently served as director of the program planning
and control office for the Constellation Program. He joined NASA in
1985 and served in several leadership positions within the Space
Station Freedom and NASA/Mir Programs at Johnson. He was later named
associate director for the Office of Bioastronautics within the Space
Life Sciences Directorate.

Stegemoeller earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering
from Texas A&M University, College Station.

For more information on the Constellation Program visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/constellation

Source: NASA




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