Paul Shack – NESC Academy Biography

Paul Shack, after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, was graduated from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1971 with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering.  He spent another year at Case Western Reserve University in post-graduate studies and as research engineer in biomedical nuclear imaging. 

He joined NASA in 1973, just as the Apollo lunar missions were completed. During his 34-year NASA career, he was a project engineer on SkyLab and Apollo-Soyuz audio communications, and subsystem manager for the Orbiter and Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) extravehicular activity (EVA) Communications system.  During the post-Challenger Return-to-Flight era, he became subsystem manager for Shuttle S-Band communications. As the Avionics Division chief engineer for the Shuttle Program, he led the Space-to-Space Communications System problem resolution effort. He also served as chief engineer for Engineering Directorate (EA) for Orbiter and for the Space Shuttle Program before retiring in 2007.

Shack joined ATK Aerospace Systems in 2010.