Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                                
May 6, 1992
(Phone:  202/453-8956)


Release:  92-59

PELLERIN APPOINTED TO SAFETY AND MISSION QUALITY POST


    NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today announced the 
appointment of Dr. Charles J. Pellerin, Jr., to the position of 
Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission Quality.  In 
addition, he will serve as Special Assistant to the Administrator 
for long-range planning.  In this capacity, he will work with 
Assistant Deputy Administrator Charles F. Bolden.

    Pellerin has served since 1983 as Director of Astrophysics in 
NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.  Many of the most 
complex satellites ever conceived were completed under his 
leadership and launched in recent years.  The scientific results 
from these missions, which include the Cosmic Background Explorer, 
Hubble Space Telescope and Compton Gamma Ray Observer, are now 
changing how we view the universe and humanity's place in it.

    Pellerin began his NASA career as an aerospace engineer at the 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., where he was involved 
in the engineering of rocket instrumentation and later, in the use 
of sounding rockets for scientific research.  In 1975, he moved to 
NASA Headquarters and for 5 years managed the development and 
integration of scientific instrumentation for flight on the Space 
Shuttle.

    In 1974, Pellerin was awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the 
Catholic University of America.  He has received many honors, 
including the Presidential Rank Award, Catholic University Science 
Alumni Award and NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal.

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