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Teresa Vanhooser named to key International Space Station position at NASA Marshall Center

Teresa B. Vanhooser has been named manager of payload operations and integration for the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

In this senior executive service position, Vanhooser will be leading the team developing payload hardware and handling payload operations for the International Space Station -- the largest multi-national space construction effort in history.

Vanhooser, distinguished as the first female mission manager of a Spacelab mission, joined the Marshall Center in 1980 as an engineer in the Operations Integration Division of the Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory.

Since then, she has assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including manager for the ATLAS 2 Spacelab mission -- the second in NASA's series of Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications Science missions.

Subsequent positions included mission manager for the first Microgravity Science Laboratory Spacelab mission, and manager of the Space Station Utilization Office. Most recently, Vanhooser was manager of the Multiuse Payload Group in the Payload Operations and Integration Department of the Flight Projects Directorate.

Vanhooser has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, and a master's in administrative science/project management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  She is the recipient of several awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.

A native of Johnson City, Tenn., Vanhooser and her husband, Michael, have two daughters, Heather and Holly. She is the daughter of Denny and Dolores Bowman of Johnson City.