Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                          
October 20, 1993
(Phone:  202/358-1778)

RELEASE:  93-191

GOLDIN ANNOUNCES KEY SPACE STATION MANAGEMENT MOVES

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today announced that the 
Office of Space Flight will assume responsibility for management 
of the Space Station Program.  Jeremiah W. Pearson III, Associate 
Administrator for Space Flight, will lead the integration of 
these major programs.

     "Our planned Space Shuttle flight activities are becoming 
increasingly more involved with our Space Station planning," 
Goldin said.  "These programs, of necessity, must be more closely 
integrated.  The Space Shuttle will be a key element of the 
redesigned Space Station program and in all presently planned 
human space flight activities with Russia."

     Organizational details of the merger of these two programs 
at NASA Headquarters are under development and will be announced 
soon.

     Goldin also named William Shepherd as the Space Station 
Program Manager at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston.  He 
is currently an Assistant Deputy Administrator (Technical) at 
NASA Headquarters and has been leading the day-to-day transition 
activities for the Space Station program.  Shepherd and the new 
Space Station Program Office at JSC will assume responsibility 
for the program and related transition activities effective 
immediately. 
 
     Program Directors for the Space Shuttle and Space Station, 
reporting to Pearson, will be responsible for all activities of 
the respective programs at NASA Headquarters.  Pending selection 
of the Space Station Program Director, Bryan D. O'Connor has been 
designated as Acting.  O'Connor is currently the Director of the 
Space Station Transition.  Thomas Utsman is the Space Shuttle 
Program Director.

     The present Space Shuttle organizational structure will 
continue to be responsible for the Space Shuttle program.

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