NASA announced the retirement of the agency’s Associate Administrator, Jim Free, thanked the agency on Wednesday (February 19,) for the service of more than 30 years.
The agency said in a statement, the last day of free will be Saturday (February 22). His tanner extends for dozens of years, and eventually saw him overseeing all 18,000 NASA employees across the country at 10 centers of the space agency.
“It has been an honor for serving NASA and walking with the workforce that deal with the most difficult engineering challenges, pursues our universe and beyond that new scientific knowledge, technologies for future discovery efforts Develops, preference safety for people on all land. , In the air, and in space, “Free said in the statement.
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The Gym Free Presidential Award as well as NASA’s prestigious service medal, excellent leadership medal, extraordinary service medal and NASA are recipients of the important achievement medal.
Free is from Ohio. He obtained a degree of Aeronautics from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, as well as mastering the Space System Engineering from the Deal University of Technology in the Netherlands. His career at NASA began in 1990 at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he worked on data-reel satellites.
He later shifted to the Glenn Research Center in his home state, where he supported the development of the Orion spacecraft. In 2008, Free shifted a summarizing to Johnson Space Center in Houston before returning to Glenn as head of Space Flight System Directorate in 2009. In 2010, Free was promoted as the director of the deputy center of Glenn, and then served as the Director of the Center since 2013. In 2016.
In March 2016, Washington, DC was appointed free Associate Administrator for Technical at the Human Executive and Operations Mission Directing at NASA Headquarters at DC, a status that he held in January 2024 until an associate administrator.
Recently, Free has served as a senior advisor to NASA acting administrator Janet Petro, until a new administrator can be confirmed by the Congress until a new administrator leads to President Trump’s pick agency. (Trump has nominated billionaire entrepreneur Jred Isaqman as a permanent NASA chief.)
“During his career, Jim has been the supreme servant leader – always putting the people of Mission and NASA first,” Petro said. “A notable engineer and a decisive leader, he combines deep technical expertise with an unwavering commitment to the mission of this agency. The legacy of the gym is one of the selfless service, firm leadership and faith in the power of the people. ,
Although he is leaving his own agreement, free potentially 1,000 other NASA employees are facing dismissal in the near future. In addition to NASA employees, who accepted Trump’s deferred resignation offer, NASA was one of several federal agencies, who “identify all employees on a period under probation” by the US Office of Personnel Management for preparation of adjacent pruning. Was directed for.
Free said in this statement, “I am grateful to the opportunity to be a part of the NASA family and contribute to the mission of the agency for the benefit of humanity.”
