Fred A. Brown
Goddard Space Flight Center                                                           
Greenbelt, Md. 20771
(Phone: 301-286-7277)

RELEASE NO. 95-085
 
LONGTIME GODDARD MANAGER, DALE FAHNESTOCK RETIRES


 	Dale Fahnestock, director of the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate 
(Code 500) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., has retired after 
more than 32 years with the agency. Fahnestock was one of the nearly 250 employees at 
Goddard who recently decided to take the Agency-wide buyout and retire from government 
service. 

	According to Fahnestock it was time to turn his attention to other pursuits. "I have 
decided to retire from NASA on March 31, 1995. I arrived at Goddard in its early days  
and have had a wonderful time working and playing with outstanding and wonderful 
people. The Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate is a wonderfully competent 
team (civil servants and contractors) that provides outstanding support to its customers 
using world class capabilities that they developed and perfected. After 32 years plus at 
Goddard and over five years as director of Code 500, it is time to move on to new 
challenges and new horizons. The management team at Goddard is the best!  I enjoyed very 
much working with a very competent, supportive and honest management team," 
Fahnestock said.

	As director of the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, Fahnestock 
managed an organization that is charged with developing and operating the NASA Ground 
Network and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Network and the Payload Operations 
Control Center at Goddard. The organization accomplishes those tasks and supports NASA 
spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle, international spacecraft and launch vehicles, with 
600 civil service and 4,000 contractor employees.

	      Fahnestock graduated in 1958 from Newark College of Engineering, Newark, 
N.J. with a degree in electrical engineering. He began his career at Goddard in 1963. 
Fahnestock and his wife Medora, have eight children and live in Elkridge, Md.

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                                                                                              April 7, 1995