Kenneth Edward Tenbusch
NASA Flow Director - Orbiter Endeavour
Shuttle Processing Directorate
Ken Tenbusch is a NASA flow director in the Shuttle Processing Directorate at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Fla. He is the NASA manager responsible for integrating, scheduling and conducting the processing of the shuttle vehicles (orbiter, external tank/solid rocket booster, payloads, OPF/VAB/pad facilities) that are associated with the orbiter Endeavour.
Tenbusch was born in Flint, Mich., in 1963, and graduated from Venice High School in 1982. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida in 1987 and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Central Florida in 1993.
Tenbusch worked briefly as a space systems analyst at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, prior to joining NASA in 1989 as an external tank mechanical systems engineer. In 1993, he joined the NASA test directors, conducting various operations from the Launch Control Center control rooms. From this office, he later became certified and worked as a landing recovery director and NASA convoy commander in the late 1990s and early part of the 2000s. In 2003, he became the external tank/solid rocket booster operations manager, and a few years later, took a position with the Marshall Space Flight Center Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project in the Kennedy resident office. In October 2007, he was given the opportunity to work as Endeavour's flow director, an assignment he currently enjoys.
Tenbusch has received numerous honors including "On the Spot" Awards, Group Achievement Awards, the Spaceflight Awareness Honoree Award, the Silver Snoopy Award and the Center's Gold Cross of Excellence.
Tenbusch resides in Melbourne, Fla. He and his wife, Andrea, enjoy family life with their sons, Daniel and Steven, and their daughter, Catherine. Ken is the son of Jerry and Jo Ann Tenbusch of North Port, Fla.
January 2008
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