Mary Sandy

Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 7,

1990
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Del Harding
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Jeffrey Carr
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(Phone: 713-483/5111)

RELEASE: 90-77

VETERAN ASTRONAUT HAWLEY TO ACCEPT EXECUTIVE POSITION AT AMES

Dr. Dale Compton, Director of NASA's Ames Research Center,

Mountain View, Calif., today named Astronaut Steven A. Hawley
as the Center's Associate Director (acting). Hawley will
assume his duties on July 29 as the center's third-ranking
executive.

"We are extremely pleased," Compton said, "to have someone

with Dr. Hawley's administrative and scientific skills joining
us at Ames."

Hawley, 38, has served as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut

Office since 1987 and most recently as mission specialist
aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31 in April
of this year. During that flight, he successfully delivered
the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit using Discovery's robot arm
and extended his total time in space to over 412 hours.

The three-time Shuttle flight veteran was selected as an

astronaut in 1978. Hawley worked as a simulator pilot in the
Shuttle software laboratory and on astronaut support crews for
Shuttle missions STS-2, STS-3 and STS-4 before making his first
space flight.

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 He first flew as a mission specialist on the maiden voyage
of Discovery, STS-41D, in August 1984. Discovery's crew
deployed three communcations satellites and activated the
OAST-1 solar cell wing experiment. He made his second trip to
orbit aboard Columbia on STS-61C in January 1986, during which
Hawley participated in the deployment of the SATCOM KU
satellite and conducted experiments in astrophysics and
materials processing.

Hawley's hometown is Salina, Kansas. An honors graduate

of the University of Kansas, he will be returning to the San
Francisco bay area, where he earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy and
Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in
1977.

In 1988, Hawley was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service

Medal. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society,
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sigma Pi Sigma and Phi
Beta Kappa.

Hawley is married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of

Redondo Beach, Calif. His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard
Hawley, live in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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