Drucella Andersen
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.  December 4, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8613)

RELEASE:  91-198

BEACH NAMED LANGLEY DEPUTY DIRECTOR 


	NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today announced 
the appointment of Dr. H. Lee Beach, Jr., as Deputy 
Director of the Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.  
Dr. Beach is currently the Director for the National 
Aero-Space Plane Directorate in the NASA Headquarters 
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology, Washington, 
D.C.

	From 1986 to 1989, Beach was Deputy Director for 
Aeronautics at the Langley Research Center.  He began 
his NASA career at Langley in 1970 as a research 
engineer in hypersonic propulsion.  He has served as 
Head of the Combustion Section, Leader of the 
Performance Analyses Group, Head of the Hypersonic 
Propulsion Branch and as Acting Chief of the High-Speed 
Aerodynamics Division.

	Beach is a Fellow of the American Institute of 
Aeronautics and Astronautics and a past Chairman of the 
JANNAF Ramjet Committee.  He has received the NASA 
Exceptional Service Medal and several group achievement 
awards for accomplishments related to high-speed 
propulsion.  He has authored or co-authored numerous 
technical publications.

	In making this announcement, Administrator Truly 
said, "Dr. Beach has exemplified outstanding leadership 
in managing the National Aero-Space Plane program for 
NASA.  He and Center Director Paul Holloway will make an 
outstanding team to assure Langley's continued 
leadership in aeronautics and space research."


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