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Space Shuttle Program Reshuffles Personnel.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 3--WASHINGTON -- The new manager of the space shuttle program announced a series of personnel moves Wednesday, the most significant shakeup since the Columbia accident and the broadest set of changes since the aftermath of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

William Parsons, who heads the shuttle program at Johnson Space Center in Houston, moved five people into new positions, pushing aside three shuttle managers in the process.

According to published reports, Linda Ham, the head of the Mission Management Team that oversaw Columbia's fatal last flight, will move into another job within the agency. NASA announced Wednesday that Ralph Roe, the program's...

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