NASA Wallops management shifts from Goddard to Kennedy
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Updated · NASA Watch · May 8
NASA Wallops management shifts from Goddard to Kennedy
8 articles · Updated · NASA Watch · May 8
Brian Hughes, newly appointed senior director of launch operations, will oversee Wallops and Kennedy from NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The change moves decades-long Wallops oversight from Goddard Space Flight Center to Florida as NASA seeks tighter coordination, higher launch cadence and execution of the president's space policy.
The report also says major NASA Headquarters functions will move to Florida, extending a broader reorganisation that earlier reports had framed mainly as Hughes's return and expanded launch role.
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