yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (03/31/89)
Mary Sandy
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 30, 1989
RELEASE: 89-41
ROSEN NAMED ACTING ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR
NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher today named Dr.
Robert Rosen as acting associate administrator for aeronautics
and space technology (OAST), effective April 2. Rosen has served
as deputy associate administrator OAST since March 1986.
Rosen replaces acting associate administrator Dr. William F.
Ballhaus, Jr. who returned to his permanent position as director
of NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.
In his new position, Rosen will be responsible for the
direction of NASA's aeronautics and space technology programs as
well as for the institutional management of NASA's Ames Research
Center, Langley Research Center and Lewis Research Center.
Rosen joined NASA Headquarters in April 1985 as the
director, propulsion, power and energy division, OAST. Prior to
coming to NASA, Rosen held key positions in private industry,
including Rocketdyne, Canoga Park, Calif., 1979-1985, and
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, Huntington Beach, Calif.,
1968-1979
Rosen received a bachelor of science degree in 1960 from the
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla; a master of science
degree in 1962 from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; a
mechanical engineering degree in 1966 from the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena; and a Ph.D. in 1968 from the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
A New York City native, Rosen and his family are residents
of Vienna, Va. He is married to the former Gail Brock and they
have two sons.