HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — David King, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., recently named Stephen C. Doering associate program manager for the Constellation Program at the center.
The Constellation Program is responsible for developing the new fleet of Ares rockets, as well as the Orion crew capsule and the Altair lunar lander that will send explorers to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.
As the associate manager, Doering will serve as the Marshall Center director’s Constellation Program representative and lead all of Marshall’s Constellation program efforts. In this role, he will provide guidance to Ares Projects management for program-level systems engineering and integration; safety and mission assurance; testing and verification; and service module and launch abort systems.
A 25-year veteran aerospace engineer, he has held numerous positions with NASA and aerospace contractors. Before appointment to his new position at the Marshall Center, he served as manager of the Extravehicular Activity Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. He was responsible for oversight of the entire range of program, personnel and business activities related to spacewalking for NASA.
He served as deputy manager of the office from 2001 to 2003, and lead for its Integration & Operations Group from 1999 to 2001. In that role, he was responsible for the technical integration of Space Shuttle and International Space Station Program’s spacewalk requirements to ensure complete system functionality and mission success.
From 1993 to 1999, Doering served in the Systems Division of Johnson’s Mission Operations Directorate as an environmental and life support systems flight controller. He worked in the Space Station Systems Division at Johnson as lead of the Maintenance and Mechanical Systems Section from 1992 to 1993.
From 1989 to 1992, he was an extravehicular activities flight controller in the Systems Division of the Mission Operations Directorate at the Johnson Center. In this position, he was responsible for training space shuttle flight crews for spacewalking activities and real time monitoring of extravehicular activities and systems in the Mission Control Center during space shuttle missions.
From 1987 to 1989, Doering served as an assembly operations manager for Booz Allen Hamilton at the Space Station Freedom Program Office in Reston, Va. He was responsible for coordinating and developing the International Space Station assembly sequence.
He worked from 1986 to 1987 as flight operations senior engineer for Hernandez Engineering in Houston. While working at Hernandez, he was assigned to the German Space Agency in Cologne, Germany, where he was responsible for space shuttle integration of the German Space Lab 2 Mission.
He began his association with NASA at the Johnson Center working as a contractor for Rockwell Space Operations Company, in Houston. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a space shuttle flight controller in the Mission Operations Directorate.
Doering earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in 1983 from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
In 2005, he was appointed to the Senior Executive Service – the personnel system covering top managerial positions in approximately 75 federal agencies. He has received a number of NASA awards, including the Johnson Space Center Certificate of Commendation 2002; a 1995 Silver Snoopy Award — a special honor awarded by astronauts — for outstanding performance and contributions on spacewalks performed during the STS-37 mission; NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2006; and numerous superior achievement awards.
Born in Helena, Ala., Doering considers South Bend, Ind., his hometown. He and his wife, the former Kimberly S. Broderick of Pittsburgh, Pa., reside in Huntsville, Ala., and have two children.
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