Brewster H. Shaw
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Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. (b. May 16, 1945 in Cass City, Michigan) is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut. He is married and has grown children.
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Education
Graduated from Cass City High School, Cass City, Michigan in 1963; received Bachelor and master of science degrees in engineering mechanics from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1968 and 1969; respectively.
Special honors
Awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Air Force [[]] with 7 Oak Leaf Cluster, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal with 20 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Air Force Longevity Service Awards, Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross. Named a Distinguished Graduate from Officer Training School and the United States Test Pilot School. Recipient of undergraduate pilot training Commanders Trophy, Outstanding Flying Trophy, Outstanding Academic Trophy, Best T-38 Pilot Award, and Top Formation Pilot Award, F- 100 Barry Goldwater Top Gun Award. Recipient of Group Achievement Award 1981 Launch and Landing Operations Team, NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985, 1989), American Astronautical Society 1983 Flight Achievement Awards STS-9 (Spacelab 1), Veterans of Foreign Wars 1984 National Space Award STS-9, NASA Group Achievement Award 61-B EASE/ACCESS (1986), NASA JSC Aviation Safety Award (1987, NASA Special Achievement Award (1988), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1988).
Experience
Shaw entered the Air Force in 1969 after completing Officer Training School, and attended undergraduate pilot training at Craig Air Force Base, Alabama. He received his wings in 1970 and was then assigned to the F-100 Replacement Training Unit at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. In March, 1971, he was assigned as an F-100 combat fighter pilot to the 352nd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. He returned to the United States in August, 1971 for assignment to the F-4 Replacement Training Unit at George Air Force Base, California. He was subsequently sent to the 25th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Ubon RTAFB, Thailand, where he flew combat missions as an F-4 fighter pilot. In April, 1973, he reported to the 20th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, George Air Force Base, California, for F-4 instructor duties. Shaw attended the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, from July, 1975 to 1976.
Following completion of this training, he remained at Edwards as an operational test pilot with the 6512th Test Squadron (Test Operations). He served as an instructor at the USAF Test Pilot School from August, 1977 to ,July, 1978.
He has logged more than 5,000 hours flying time in over 30 types of aircraft -- including 644 hours of combat in F-100 and F-4 aircraft.
Shaw was selected as an astronaut in January, 1978. Shaw is a veteran of three shuttle flights and has logged 533 hours of space flight. He was pilot on STS-9 in November, 1983, commander of STS-61-B in November, 1985, and commander of STS-28 in August, 1989. Following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986, he supported the Roger’s Presidential Commission investigating the STS 51-L accident. Shaw subsequently led the space shuttle orbiter return-to-flight team chartered to enhance the safety of the vehicles’ operations. As NASA’s Space Shuttle Program Manager in the mid-1990’s, Shaw led the shuttle team through the transition to more efficient operations and greatly reduced costs.
Shaw left the Johnson Space Center in October, 1989 to assume the NASA Headquarters Senior Executive position of Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Operations, located at the Kennedy Space Center. As Operations Manager, Shaw was responsible for all operational aspects of the Space Shuttle Program and had Level II authority over the Space Shuttle elements from the time the Orbiters left the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), were mated to the external tank and solid rocket boosters, transported to the launch pad, launched and recovered, and returned to the Orbiter Processing Facility. He was the final authority for the launch decision, and chaired the Mission Management Team.
Shaw next served as the Deputy Program Manager, Space Shuttle, as a NASA Headquarters employee located at the Kennedy Space Center. In addition to the duties he previously held as Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Operations, he also shared with the Program Manager, Space Shuttle, full authority and responsibility for the conduct of the Space Shuttle Program.
He then served as Director, Space Shuttle Operations, with responsibility for the development of all Space Shuttle elements, including the Orbiter, external tank, solid rocket boosters, Space Shuttle main engines, and the facilities required to support mission operations, and in the planning necessary to efficiently conduct Space Shuttle operations.
Shaw joined Rockwell in 1996 after 27 years with the U.S. Air Force and NASA. The Boeing Company acquired Rockwell in December 1996. Initially, Shaw served as Director, Major Programs, Boeing Space and Defense Group. He next served as Vice President and Program Manager of ISS Electrical Power Systems at Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power. The contract included the development, test, evaluation and production of the electrical power system to be assembled in space during multiple space shuttle launches. Shaw then served as ISS Flight Elements and Subsystems Manager, leading the consolidated Boeing teams at Huntsville, Alabama, Canoga Park and Huntington Beach, California, in the design, development, test, evaluation, production, and flight preparation of hardware and software. He then became Vice President and Deputy Program Manager-Technical, ISS. In that role he led the technical interface with NASA’s management team in addressing day-to-day development and test issues and planning. Next, he was Boeing’s International Space Station (ISS) Vice President and General Manager, responsible for leading a multi-contractor industry team in designing, developing, testing, launching and operating NASA’s international orbiting laboratory. Boeing is NASA’s prime contractor and supplier of all the U.S. hardware and software. Most recently, Shaw was Vice President and General Manager and Deputy, NASA Systems Integrated Defense Systems. As the Houston site executive he was responsible for the functional management and execution of the programs, and, as deputy, shared responsibility for the office of NASA systems.
Brewster Shaw is Chief Operating Officer of United Space Alliance (USA). Named to this position in mid-2003, he has primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations and overall management of USA, the prime contractor for the Space Shuttle Program, and its 10,000 employees in Florida, Texas, Alabama and Russia.
Space flight experience
STS-9/Spacelab-1 Columbia (November 28 to December 8, 1983) was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander John W. Young; pilot Brewster Shaw; mission specialists Owen Garriott and Robert Parker; and payload specialists, Byron Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold were the largest crew to fly aboard a single spacecraft, the first international Shuttle crew, and the first to carry payload specialists. During this maiden flight of the European Space Agency (ESA)-developed laboratory, the crew conducted more than seventy multi-disciplinary scientific and technical investigations in the fields of life sciences, atmospheric physics and earth observations, astronomy and solar physics, space plasma physics, and materials processing. After ten days of spacelab hardware verification and around-the-clock scientific operations, Columbia and its laboratory cargo (the heaviest payload to be returned to earth in the shuttle’s cargo bay) returned to land on the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
STS-61B Atlantis (November 26 to December 3, 1985) was a night launch. The crew included spacecraft commander Brewster Shaw; pilot, Bryan O'Connor; mission specialists, Mary Cleave, Jerry Ross, and Woody Springs; as well as payload specialists Rodolfo Neri Vela (Mexico), and Charles Walker (McDonnell Douglas). During the mission the crew deployed the MORELOS-B, AUSSATT II, and SATCOM K-2 communications satellites, conducted 2 six hour spacewalks to demonstrate Space Station construction techniques with the EASE/ACCESS experiments, operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis (CRFES) experiment for McDonnell Douglas and a Getaway Special (GAS) container for Telesat, Canada, conducted several Mexican Payload Specialists Experiments for the Mexican Government, and tested the Orbiter Experiments Digital Autopilot (OEX DAP). This was the heaviest payload weight carried to orbit by the Space Shuttle to date. After completing 108 orbits of the Earth in 165 hours, Shaw landed Atlantis on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
STS-28 Columbia (August 8-13, 1989) was also commanded by Brewster Shaw and included pilot Dick Richards, and three mission specialist, Jim Adamson, Dave Leestma, and Mark Brown. The STS-28 mission carried Department of Defense payloads and a number of secondary payloads. After 80 orbits of the earth, this five-day mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
JANUARY 2004
Source: [1] (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shaw-bh.html)