NASA Administrator Invoice Nelson on Monday named John Bailey as director of the company’s Stennis Area Middle close to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, efficient instantly. Bailey had been serving as performing director position since January.
“John will construct on his practically 35 years of federal service to guide our gifted workforce at Stennis,” mentioned Nelson. “A lot of NASA runs by means of Stennis. It’s the place we hone new and thrilling capabilities in aerospace, expertise, and deep house exploration. I’m assured that John will lead the nation’s largest and premier propulsion check website to even better success.”
NASA Stennis is also a singular federal metropolis, dwelling to greater than 50 resident tenants with a mixed workforce of over 5,200. The middle examined the SLS (Area Launch System) core stage that helped launch the Artemis I mission. It is also testing all RS-25 engines to assist energy SLS launches and can conduct flightworthy testing of the company’s new exploration higher stage previous to its use in house on future Artemis missions to the Moon and past.
The middle is a pacesetter in partnering and dealing with business aerospace firms to assist their propulsion check initiatives. It is also increasing as an aerospace and expertise hub, and in improvement of clever and autonomous techniques wanted for deep house exploration.
“That is an thrilling time for NASA Stennis, and I’m deeply honored to guide its nice household of staff who make up this wonderful workforce,” Bailey mentioned. “We’re devoted to persevering with to supply frontline assist to the company’s missions and initiatives. I stay up for our shared future and success.”
Bailey has greater than three many years of federal service with the U.S. Air Drive and NASA. As a communications engineer with the U.S. Air Drive, Bailey led digital communications testing worldwide. He joined the NASA Stennis group in 1999 and subsequently served in a wide range of roles, managing and main technical and non-technical organizations and supervising staff with a variety of abilities and backgrounds.
Bailey was tapped in 2015 to guide the NASA Stennis Engineering and Take a look at Directorate, managing vital rocket propulsion check property exceeding $2 billion in worth and initiatives greater than $221 million. He was named NASA Stennis affiliate director in 2018 and chosen as the middle’s deputy director in 2021.
An Alabama native, Bailey holds a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering and a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration from the College of South Alabama.
Entry Bailey’s on-line biography at:
https://www.nasa.gov/individuals/john-w-bailey-jr/
