June 1982
From The Space Library
NASA announced that Dr. Walter C. Williams, chief engineer since July 1975, would retire in July. Dr. Stanley I. Weiss, associate administrator for space transportation operations, would succeed him. Williams began his career with NACA, NASA's predecessor, in August 1940 and worked during the war to improve U.S. fighter planes. He was founding director of the organization that became NASA's Dryden facility. He went to Langley Field, Va., in September 1959 as associate director of the new NASA Space Task Group created to carry out Project Mercury and later was director of operations for the project. He then became associate director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston that later was JSC. He went to NASA Headquarters in January 1963, leaving in April 1964 to work for Aerospace Corporation's vehicle systems. He became NASA's first chief engineer in 1975. (NASA anno, June 1/82; NASA Release 82-86)
NASA announced the appointment of George F. Page as deputy director of KSC effective July 5. He had directed Shuttle operations there since 1979 and was launch director for the first three launches of Columbia. From 1964 to 1975 he directed KSC operations planning for 19 Gemini and 25 Apollo spacecraft launches, ending with the lunar landings and the successful Apollo-Soyuz project. He directed unmanned launch operations from 1975 to 1979, with more than 54 major launches from both KSC and the Western Test Range (WTR) at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (NASA anno June 21/82; NASA Release 82-102)
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