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David Morse/Ann Sullivan                    May 30, 2003
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650/604-3039 or 650/604-9000

RELEASE: 03-42AR

ALLEN FLYNT NAMED NASA AMES DEPUTY CENTER DIRECTOR

G. Allen Flynt was today named deputy director at NASA's Ames 
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., effective Aug. 3.   Dr. 
Steven Zornetzer, who has been acting deputy center director since 
November 2002, was named Ames' deputy director for research.

Flynt comes to Ames from the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in 
Houston, where he served as manager of the Extra-Vehicular Activity 
(EVA) Project Office.  As Manager of JSC's EVA Project Office, Flynt 
developed hardware, integration standards, capabilities, services, 
techniques, templates, and other information necessary to provide 
spacewalking services to the Space Shuttle and International Space 
Station programs. More recently, Flynt was among the senior NASA 
officials tasked to help direct debris recovery efforts for the Space 
Shuttle Columbia in Lufkin, Texas.

"Allen's leadership was vital in the unprecedented cooperation we 
witnessed between federal, state, and local organizations during the 
Columbia recovery effort," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. "His 
management and technology integration experience will be invaluable 
to our colleagues at Ames."

"Allen brings a wealth of experience from the human space flight 
community at NASA," added Dr. Jeremiah F. Creedon, Associate 
Administrator for the Office of Aerospace Technology at NASA 
Headquarters in Washington. "He's clearly demonstrated a capacity to 
conquer management challenges. Scott Hubbard knows he's fortunate to 
have a proven leader on his Ames management team."

Flynt began his NASA career in 1986 as an analyst in the National 
Space Transportation System program control office at JSC. He next 
worked as an analyst in the Orbiter Project Office before moving on 
to serve in the Space Shuttle program control arena. He managed the 
extra-vehicular activity mobility unit project from 1992 until 1995 
and has held various leadership and management roles in the 
International Space Station Program and EVA Project offices.

"I am delighted to have Allen join us as part of the senior 
management team at NASA Ames," said Ames Center Director G. Scott 
Hubbard. "This appointment and Allen's expertise and perspective 
provide us with a tremendous opportunity to develop a closer working 
relationship between the human space flight and research and 
technology worlds."

"I am honored and excited by this opportunity to take on this 
important new leadership assignment at a premier NASA research 
facility such as Ames," said Flynt. "I am very optimistic that this 
will open up new avenues for collaboration, partnership and 
technology infusion into NASA missions."

Flynt holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Texas 
A&M University, College Station, and has been honored with numerous 
awards. Those awards include the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal, 
the Victor Prather award, outstanding and superior performance 
awards, and the "Silver Snoopy," which is presented by the astronaut 
corps for outstanding service.

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