Mar 5 1987
From The Space Library
Willis H. Shapley was selected for NASA's newly established position of Associate Deputy Administrator (Policy), effective March 9, 1987. Shapley held the third ranking position, created in response to the reorganization recommended by the NASA Management Study Group.
Shapley began Government service in 1942 with the Bureau of the Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he specialized in research and development, national defense, and space programs. From 1965 to 1975, he was NASA's Associate Deputy Administrator. In July 1975 he was the senior NASA representative in the Soviet Union during the joint US-USSR Apollo-Soyuz space mission. Shapley retired from NASA in 1975 to become a consultant to a number of private institutions and Government agencies, including NASA. (NASA Release 87-24)
NASA announced that beginning March 14, 1987, the Pioneer 12 space-craft, orbiting Planet Venus, would study the newly discovered Comet Wilson. The Comet was to be tracked by controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, from March 14-21, and again from March 31 to April 30. (NASA Release 87-25)
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