Karol Bobko Joins SPACEHAB As Vice President for Product Development.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 SPACEHAB, Inc. today announced that Karol "Bo" Bobko has joined the Company's Johnson Engineering organization as Vice President for Product Development. Bobko will be responsible for all hardware development at SPACEHAB, serving commercial and government customers as well as SPACEHAB-funded development projects. A former astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, Bobko joins SPACEHAB after more than 11 years as a principal with Booz Allen and Hamilton, where he managed space system operations in the company's Houston/Clear Lake office. "Bo joins our team at a critical time, when activity is increasing dramatically on all of our projects, both commercial and government," said SPACEHAB President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. David A Rossi. "His leadership will be essential to completing these projects on time and within budget." Bobko started his Air Force career as a fighter pilot, became a test pilot and was selected an astronaut in the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program. He was detailed to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), (NASA) as an astronaut in 1970. During his years at NASA he had many technical and management assignments. His crew assignments included serving as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the U.S. and Soviet space programs. The mission took place in July 1975. For the United States of America, it was the last Apollo flight, as well as the last manned space launch until the flight of the first Space Shuttle , piloting the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983 (STS-6) and serving as commander of Shuttle missions 51-D and 51-J (1985). He is an Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is an international organization that seeks to promote air safety and contributes to aeronautical advancement by promoting sound aeronautical design and development; interchanging ideas, thoughts and suggestions of the members, assisting in and President of the Association of Space Explorers - US. Born in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Bobko is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly called Brooklyn Tech or just Tech, and also administratively sometimes as High School 430, is a New York City public high school that specializes in engineering, math and science. , the U.S. Air Force Academy (first graduating class, 1959), and the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission (M.S., aerospace engineering, 1970). SPACEHAB, with its Johnson Engineering and Astrotech units, is the world's leading provider of commercial payload processing services for manned and unmanned payloads. SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that provide laboratory facilities and logistics resupply aboard NASA's Space Shuttles. The Company also supports NASA astronaut training at Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
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