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Seems they're starting an Astronaut Office...



FORMER ASTRONAUT BOWERSOX JOINS SPACEX AS VICE PRESIDENT OF ASTRONAUT SAFETY
AND MISSION ASSURANCE


Hawthorne, CA - (June 16, 2009) - Space Exploration Technologies Corp
(SpaceX) announces Ken Bowersox as vice president of the newly formed
Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance Department. He will be co-located in
Houston, Texas, and SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Bowersox joins SpaceX with over 19 years of experience at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Selected to the astronaut corps
in 1987, he has flown five times on NASA's Space Shuttle, serving as pilot,
commander and mission specialist, and once on a Russian Soyuz, where he
served as the flight engineer during descent. During his five orbital
missions, Bowersox has logged over 211 days in space, including five and a
half months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where he was the
mission commander of the 6th expedition. He was also a crew member for the
first two Hubble Space Telescope repair flights and two United States
Microgravity Laboratory flights.

Subsequent to his mission aboard the ISS, Bowersox served as the director of
the Johnson Space Center's Flight Crew Operations Directorate, where he was
responsible for the NASA Astronaut Office and all aircraft operations at the
Johnson Space Center. Most recently, Bowersox has been working as an
independent aerospace consultant, serving on the NASA standing review boards
for Space Shuttle, ISS, Constellation, Orion and the Constellation Suit
System.

"Ken Bowersox is a critical asset to the SpaceX team, as we prepare for
crewed missions aboard our Dragon spacecraft," said Elon Musk, Founder and
CEO of SpaceX. "His experience in the U.S. astronaut corps, and aboard the
International Space Station, will be invaluable in shaping the future of
commercial manned spaceflight."


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