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Alum to direct NASA’s Dryden Center

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin recently named Kevin Petersen, BSAeroE’74, Director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Goldin said, “Kevin brings to the job a wealth of aeronautical experience, expertise, and leadership at Dryden. This will be absolutely essential in guiding NASA into the next century with some of the most advanced research aircraft and aviation activities in the nation.”

Since joining Dryden as an aerospace engineer in 1974, Petersen’s experience has included work on F-8 Digital Fly-by-Wire, Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology, and X-29 forward-swept wing flight research projects. He was chief of the Vehicle Technology Branch and of the National Aerospace Plane projects office, and served as acting director and deputy director of Dryden.