Glenn C. Chin
Mission Manager
International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing
Glenn C. Chin is a NASA mission manager in the International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Directorate at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., a position he has held since July 2000.
His primary responsibility is to lead the multidisciplinary team of engineers and technicians that assemble and test the International Space Station (ISS) components that fly aboard the space shuttle. Additionally, he is the primary payload customer advocate/interface and the primary payload interface to NASA launch vehicle management and the ISS Program management.
Chin is currently assigned to STS-120/ISS-10A, STS-119/ISS-15A, STS-126/ISS-ULF2 and STS-132/ISS-20A. His previous mission assignments were STS-102/ISS-5A.1, STS-105/ISS-7A.1 and STS-111/ISS-UF2.
Chin joined NASA/KSC in 1989 as a system engineer working in the "hands-on" Level IV assembly, integration and test group that processed Spacelab modules and experiments for the Spacelab Program. In 1992, he moved on to being a payload project/integration engineer for the Spacelab Program where his primary role was technical requirements and test management. Chin transferred to the ISS Program in June 1996 as a lead integration and test engineer with the Space Station Hardware Integration Office that provided field support to ISS hardware manufacturing sites. Before NASA, Chin worked at the General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, as a nuclear system engineer assigned to perform sustaining engineering to commissioned U.S. Navy nuclear submarines.
He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2005 and a Silver Snoopy Award in 1995.
Chin was born Feb. 28, 1964, in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to South Florida in September 1979. He graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in mechnical engineering.
He lives in Melbourne with his wife, Danilee, and their seven-year-old son, Matthew.
September 2007
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