MANAGER ADDED TO SPACE PROJECT FORMER NASA OFFICIAL ON TEAM.Byline: Daily News Leonard Nicholson Leonard Hanson Nicholson (June 8 1904 - March 22, 1983) served as the tenth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from May 1, 1951 to March 31, 1959. Leonard Hanson Nicholson graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1923. , a former NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. official and former International Space Station executive for Boeing, has been named deputy program manager for Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. and Boeing's Crew Exploration Vehicle
The Crew Exploration Vehicle (or CEV) was the conceptual component of the Vision for Space Exploration that later became known as the Orion spacecraft. . ``Leonard's broad operational experience in the U.S. space program, from Apollo to the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. and International Space Station programs, reinforces our team's ability to help NASA design and build an innovative, yet affordable CEV CEV Crew Exploration Vehicle (NASA) CEV Contemporary English Version (Bible) CEV Confédération Européenne de Volleyball CEV Confederation Européenne de Volleyball at the lowest possible risk,'' said Doug Young, vice president of space systems for Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector and program manager for the Northrop Grumman-Boeing CEV team. Northrop Grumman and Boeing are working under a $28 million NASA contract to perform studies for a spacecraft to replace the space shuttle and carry astronauts to the moon and Mars. NASA plans to award a contract to design and build the CEV in spring 2006. Nicholson, a Boeing employee, will be responsible for coordinating the team's activities required to implement the overall CEV program. Keith Reiley, who had been acting deputy program manager, will devote full attention to managing the spacecraft design activity and will serve as the lead for the first-phase contract effort. Nicholson retired from NASA in 2000 and joined Boeing as a special assistant to the company's International Space Station program manager. In 2002, he was named International Space Station deputy program manager. |
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