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,TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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483-5111 January 8, 1970
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RELEASED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--Dale D. Myers, vice president and general manager
of the Space Shuttle Program at North American Rock_ell Corp., has been
appointed Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
He succeeds Dr. George E. Mueller who left NASA December 10 to
become a vice president of General Dynamics Corp. in New York City.
Myers will be responsible for the planning, direction, execution
and evaluation of NASA's overall manned space flight program. These
functions include H_nageraent authority over the George C. Marshall
Space Flight Center, Huntsville_ Alabama; Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston; and the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Myers has been in charge of North American Rockwell's space shuttle
program since June 1969. Prior to that he had been vice president and
general manager of the Apollo Con_mand and Service Module work since
February 1968 and vice president and Apollo Program Manager since April
1964.
He joined North American Aviation in June 1943 as an aeronautical
engineer and was project aerodynamicist on the F-82_ XSNJ and XI_J-1
airplanes. He developed the basic methods used by the company for
stability and control analyses, including the effects of aeroelasticity
on beth dynamic and static stability.
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