Former Goddard Employee Selected as NASA's Space Architect

Gary L. Martin has been named to a key new position within the agency designed to help make NASA's future exploration and research goals possible. Martin, who has served as Assistant Associate Administrator for Advanced Systems in NASA's Office of Space Flight, will serve as the agency's Space Architect.

Martin began his career at NASA in 1990 as a program manager and branch chief in what was then known as Microgravity Sciences and Applications at NASA Headquarters in Washington. He then became a Goddard employee serving as the integration manager for the Space Science program focused on the Structure and Evolution of the Universe. Martin was part of the initial management team for the James Webb telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Space Architect reports to the Deputy Administrator. Martin will set NASA's future technology requirements and monitor development programs, to ensure systems will be ready when needed, to support next-generation science objectives.

For more on Mr. Martin, view the complete release at: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2002/02-198.txt