khayo@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Eric Behr) (06/07/88)
[I bundled these two somewhat unrelated stories to reduce
traffic a little - E.]
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ASTRONAUT SPRING REASSIGNED TO ARMY SPACE POST
June 3, 1988
RELEASE: 88-72
NASA astronaut Sherwood "Woody" Spring (Col., USA) has
announced that he will leave NASA in August of this year to
accept an assignment as Director of the U.S. Army Space Program
Office in Fairfax, Va.
Spring will report for duty September 1 for 9 months of
familiarization and training before assuming his responsibilities
as director in June of 1989.
Spring was selected as an astronaut in May 1980. He served
as mission specialist on Shuttle mission STS 61-B launched in
November 1985. During that mission, Spring assisted in deploying
three communications satellites and performed two spacewalks,
totaling 12 hours, which investigated large structure assembly
techniques in orbit. Spring logged 165 hours in space on that
mission.
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O'BRIEN TO RETIRE FROM NASA
June 6, 1988
RELEASE: 88-73
John E. O'Brien, NASA's general counsel, having completed 32
1/2 years of federal service -- 26 years with NASA -- will retire
July 2, 1988. O'Brien has accepted a position with the law firm
of Steptoe and Johnson, Washington, D.C.
O'Brien became general counsel in August 1985 after serving
as deputy general counsel since November 1981. He joined NASA in
1962 as staff attorney at NASA's Launch Operations Center, now
the Kennedy Space Center. Prior to that position, he had served
as staff attorney at the Navy General Counsels Office in
Washington, D.C. from 1957 to 1962. In 1970 he was appointed
chief counsel of the Kennedy Space Center and NASA general
counsel for procurement matters in 1973.
He received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1976 and
was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in
1980.
O'Brien received a BA degree from Niagara University and a
Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University. During 1965-
66 he was a Princeton Fellow in Public Affairs at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the
Federal Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the
International Bar Association and the International Institute of
Space Law.
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Eric