Barbara Selby
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                               
March 8, 1991
(Phone:  703/557-5609)


RELEASE:  91-39

ARNOLD NAMED DEPUTY FOR NASA COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS OFFICE


   NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today announced 
the selection of Ray J. Arnold as Deputy Assistant 
Administrator for Commercial Programs, effective 
immediately.  He replaces Lawrence F. Herbolsheimer, who 
will assume the post of Deputy Assistant Administrator 
for Policy and Interagency Coordination.

   Prior to this assignment, Arnold was Director of 
Communications and Information Systems in the Office of 
Space Science and Applications (OSSA) since 1987, where 
he managed the continued development of the Advanced 
Communications Technology Satellite, on-going research in 
commercial communications satellite systems and OSSA's 
centralized information systems programs.
   
   Arnold began his NASA career in 1965 at Kennedy Space 
Center, Fla., as a cryogenic systems engineer for the 
Saturn V ground systems design team.  In 1975 he came to 
NASA Headquarters in the Office of Applications.  He 
continued his career in the field of Earth Science remote 
sensing systems, including management of Space Shuttle 
instruments during the orbital flight tests, TIROS, GOES, 
Nimbus, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite and early 
Earth Observation Systems definition.  In 1981 he was 
named Deputy Director of OSSA's Earth Science and 
Applications Division.

   Arnold graduated from Auburn University in 1965, 
earned an MBA from Florida State University in 1972 and 
completed a year of graduate study at the University of 
Georgia in 1973.


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