Well is Gregory the person that selects the crews of Artemis?
Well is Gregory the person that selects the crews of Artemis?
no, Chief of the Astronaut Office does not make crew selections.
Well is Gregory the person that selects the crews of Artemis?
no, Chief of the Astronaut Office does not make crew selections.
Then Jim who makes the selections?
Well is Gregory the person that selects the crews of Artemis?
no, Chief of the Astronaut Office does not make crew selections.
I hate to disagree with my acerbic and usually deadly accurate friend Jim, but it is indeed the chief of the astronaut office who makes NASA flight crew selections. They are, of course, subject to approval by the JSC director and the head of human spaceflight at HQ.
So the answer to crew for Artemis II is, yes, Wiseman... and if he stays in office past 2023, Artemis III.
Michael Cassutt
Well is Gregory the person that selects the crews of Artemis?
And BTW, he goes by Reid, not Gregory.
As for the history of crew selection authority....
Mercury, Space Task Group director Robert Gilruth with input from Walter Williams
MA-9 through Apollo 17 and Skylab, flight crew operations director Deke Slayton
ASTP, JSC director Chris Kraft
ALT and STS-1 through STS-27, flight crew ops/flight ops director George W. S. Abbey
STS-27 to now, chief of the astronaut office beginning with Brandenstein
Michael Cassutt
ALT and STS-1 through STS-27, flight crew ops/flight ops director George W. S. Abbey
STS-27 to now, chief of the astronaut office beginning with Brandenstein
Didn't realize the change
ALT and STS-1 through STS-27, flight crew ops/flight ops director George W. S. Abbey
STS-27 to now, chief of the astronaut office beginning with Brandenstein
Didn't realize the change
It was never announced. Abbey was moved out of his director/FCOPS job in October 1987 by new JSC director Aaron Cohen, and human spaceflight chief Truly. Don Puddy replaced him... Puddy really had no idea of who was what in the astronaut office, but Dan Brandenstein and his deputy, Steven Hawley did. They picked up the crew assignment ball and ran with it... Hawley would later describe it as "teenagers getting the keys to the family car". Every subsequent CB chief has retained the authority, though some of their assignments have been overruled, as Slayton was on Apollo 13 and 17.
MC