Mark E. Nall, M.Sc.
Mark E. Nall, M.Sc.
is the Manager of the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at
Marshall Space Flight Center.
Prior to that, Mark was
manager of NASA’s
Space Partnership Development (SPD) Program at Marshall Space Flight
Center. This program, comprised of 12 Research Partnership Centers,
specialized in industry, academia and governmental research partnerships
that bring the best talent and resources to bear on problems of common
interest. These partnerships enabled the SPD Program to conduct 30% of
the U.S. research on the International Space Station on 5% of the
research budget.
Before moving to MSFC, he spent 5
years at NASA
Headquarters in Washington DC, where he was Program Manager of the
Commercial Middeck Augmentation Module Program that made it possible for
private industry to provide accommodations for 200 middeck lockers on
the Space Shuttle. Before joining NASA in 1989, he spent 9 years
in the U.S. Air Force, first as a KC-135 Aircraft Commander, then as an
EC-18B Research Pilot.
Mark earned his Bachelors of
Science Degree in
Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University in 1980, and his
Master of
Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern
California in 1986. The recipient of numerous awards, he holds the Air
Force
Meritorious Service Medal, and was inducted into the Space Technology
Hall of Fame.
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LinkedIn profile.