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NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
Tacit Knowledge Capture Project
Edited Oral History Transcript
Stephen S. Oswald
Interviewed by Rebecca Wright
Houston, Texas 20 May
Wright: The day is May 20, We are in Houston, Texas to speak with Stephen Oswald, who is currently Vice President and General Manager of Intelligence and Security Systems for Boeing. This interview is being conducted for the JSC Tacit Knowledge Capture Project for the Space Shuttle Program. The interviewer is Rebecca Wright assisted by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal. Thanks again for coming in and giving up part of your vacation time to talk with us. Tell us how you first came to work with the Space Shuttle Program. We know you joined as a NASA employee and then became an astronautso if you wanted to give us some background information, how that evolved into the duties that you're doing now.
Oswald: I actually had no interest in the space program at all; I just wanted to fly airplanes. So I joined the Navy to do that, and I think my interest inor lack of interestin the space program started because I'm pretty big, about 6'1". In in Seattle, they had a World's Fair. Alan [B.] Shepard [Jr.] had flown in '61, so they had his capsule there. Its one of the couple early memories tha
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Charles Kennel, former director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, has been named a member of NASA's Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
During the course of the review, the panel will examine ongoing and planned NASA development activities and potential alternatives in order to present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable and sustainable human space flight program following the space shuttle's retirement next year. The committee will present its results by August in time to support an administration decision on the way forward.
STSS (9 Oct. ) These seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS crew portrait. From the left are astronauts Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, both mission specialists; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; Scott D. Altman, commander; K. Megan McArthur, John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel, all mission specialists. The STS mission will be the final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of NASA.
"I am honored to be part of this committee to help NASA through the critical transition of the human space flight program that it is in the process of accomplishing," said Kennel, who is currently senior strategist at UCSD's Sustainability Solutions Institute