NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Patrick Scheuermann
Deputy Director
John C. Stennis Space Center

Patrick Scheuermann serves as deputy director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. He is responsible, with the center director, for coordinating NASA's rocket propulsion test capabilities and Stennis' roles in NASA's applied science programs, as well as managing the facility. Stennis Space Center is a unique federal city that is home to more than 30 federal, state, academic and private organizations and numerous technology-based companies.

Scheuermann previously was associate director at Stennis. Prior to that time he served as chief operating officer of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where he was responsible for day-to-day management and operation. Scheuermann also was deputy director of center operations at Stennis until his move to Michoud.

From 1998 to 2000, Scheuermann served in Washington, D.C. as a legislative fellow for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, as a participant in the Congressional Fellowship Program. Until his move to the nation's capitol, he was chief of the new business office at Stennis, responsible for strategic investment planning and capability assessments.

Since joining NASA in 1988 as a propulsion test engineer, Scheuermann has worked numerous major test projects at Stennis including serving as project manager for NASA's Reusable Launch Vehicle program, a NASA-industry effort to develop a new generation of safe and cost-effective rockets to send payloads to space. He also was project manager for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, an Air Force-led effort to build a family of expendable rockets that would reduce the costs of launching U.S. payloads into space.

The New Orleans native received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Orleans. He has received numerous honors, including NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal and NASA's Exceptional Service Medal. He was a finalist in NASA's astronaut candidate selection program in 1998.

Scheuermann and his wife, the former Sarah Melissa Lee of Pearl River County, Miss., live in Slidell, La., with their son and daughter, Chandler and Christina.