July 1983
From The Space Library
NASA appointed Dr. Milton A. Silveira, assistant to the deputy administrator, to succeed Dr. Stanley I. Weiss as chief engineer. Weiss, who came to NASA in 1980 as associate administrator for space transportation operations at Headquarters, was leaving to become vice president for engineering at Lockheed Corporation, where he had worked from 1957 to 1978.
Silveira began at Langley with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1951 and worked in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. He was deputy project manager at JSC for the shuttle orbiter pro-gram before coming to Headquarters in 1981. (Anno, July 1/83)
NASA also appointed John W. Boyd associate administrator for management at Headquarters effective September 4. He had begun at ARC in 1947 and served there until appointed deputy director of DFRC in 1979, returning to ARC in 1980 as associate director. (Anno, July 1/83)
Dr. Homer E. Newell, Jr., associate administrator of NASA when he retired in 1973, died July 18 at his home at the age of 68. Before joining NASA shortly after its formation in 1958, he had been acting superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory's atmosphere and astrophysics division, and coordinator of the science program for the Navy's Project Vanguard. The New York Times said that Newell was "primarily responsible for organizing early [U.S.] scientific efforts in space" and "firmly championed the view that scientific exploration of space should be under civilian rather than military auspices." (NY Times, July 20/83, B-8; W Post, July 20/83, C-8)
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