Spaceflight Awareness Program News Today

As deputy director of Marshall Space Flight Center, Rick Burt helps guide the next era in exploration and discovery for one of NASA’s largest field installations, with a broad portfolio of human spaceflight, science, and technology development efforts that touch nearly every mission NASA pursues. Turns out growing up on his family’s farm in Columbia, Tennessee, was just the career training he needed. He and his older brother Danny spent weekends and summers as de facto farmhands â€�...