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NASA: JERRY J. FITTS APPOINTED DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR OF OSO
Posting Date: 09/30/89
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today announced the
appointment of Jerry J. Fitts as the Deputy Associate
Administrator for Space Operations, effective Oct. 8, 1989.
Fitts will succeed Charles T. Force, who was appointed the
Associate Administrator for Space Operations in July 1989. The
Office of Space Operations manages the agency's worldwide data
and tracking network, which tracks and communicates with all
manned and unmanned spacecraft and interplanetary probes.
Fitts received a Mechanical Engineering degree from the
University of Utah in 1958, followed by a master's of science
degree from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.
Fitts' first engineering position was with Pratt and Whitney
Aircraft working on propulsion systems development. He then
accepted an opportunity with General Dynamics to participate in
NASA's Centaur Program, the nation's first liquid hydrogen/oxygen
rocket. In 1962, Fitts joined NASA's Space Nuclear Propulsion
Office, where he ultimately became responsible for engine systems
design and development at the Lewis Research Center. Fitts left
NASA to help establish the Office of Research and Technology at
the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was Director
of the Housing and Economic Research Division for 6 years.
In 1980, Fitts returned to NASA as the Deputy Director of the
Space Shuttle Main Engines Program within the Headquarters
Office of Space Flight (OSF). Subsequently, Fitts served in OSF
as Director, Solid Rocket Booster and External Tank Division, and
as Deputy Director, Customer Services Division.
In February 1987, Fitts became the Director of the
Transportation Services Office, a focal point for the NASA, DOD,
civil and international payload communities that require
transportation services on the Space Shuttle or expendable launch
vehicles. He also was responsible for space transportations
policy development and manifesting of payloads on the various
launch vehicle systems.
Fitts and his wife, Hartley Campbell Fitts, reside in McLean,
Va. They have three children -- Stanford, Stewart and Jane Anne
-- and two grandchildren.
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