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Robert Jameson

Deputy Director Wallops Flight Facility

Mr. Robert “Bob” E. Jameson is the deputy director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, as well as the deputy director of the Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects Directorate (SSOPD). As Wallops and SSOPD deputy director, Bob assists in the overall management and technical readiness of Wallops. He also ensures the execution of the suborbital and special orbital projects through integration, launch, and operations with proper controls and management of technical risks and to ensure our work is planned and conducted safely. 

For two decades, Bob served in the U.S. Air Force in various positions with the 320th Missile Squadron, 30th Space Wing, and culminating as the chief of Launch and Range Requirements at Air Force Space Command, where he was responsible for developing, managing, and supporting a full range of national security space launch activities. 

Bob joined Goddard/Wallops in 2010 in the engineering department on the Wallops Range Operations Contract, where he served as the project manager leading the Wallops launch range development and support for the first-ever Antares commercial resupply services mission. 

In 2013, Bob was named deputy chief of the Range and Mission Management Office (RMMO), responsible for engineering management and technical oversight of launch range projects, including the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport, and provision of launch range services for resupply to the International Space Station, government, commercial and university science missions. 

In 2017, Bob became the RMMO chief at Goddard/Wallops. He has led departmental activities with a Wallops-wide approach in support of launch services, resulting in a dramatic increase in Wallops operations tempo. Through providing fixed and worldwide range assets across the broad portfolio of NASA, Department of Defense, and commercial missions, the Wallops launch range has become an invaluable national resource for the agency in providing assured access to space. 

Jameson has a bachelor’s degree in applied arts and science from Texas State University and a Master of Science in Space Operations Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, where he was a distinguished graduate. 

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