Richard Covey Named USA Chief Operating Officer

Veteran astronaut and space industry executive Richard O. Covey was recently named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of United Space Alliance.

Covey replaces Brewster Shaw, who returned to Boeing to lead its NASA Systems as Vice President and General Manager.

Covey will report to President and CEO Mike McCulley and will be heavily involved in the day-to-day operations and management of the company.

“There is nobody better suited to help steer United Space Alliance and the Shuttle and Station team through the critical coming years than Dick Covey,” McCulley said. “We are extremely fortunate to have Dick on the team. He brings the right management skills and operations experience to help us achieve the highest levels of mission assurance and success possible as we complete the assembly of the Space Station.”

Covey joins USA from The Boeing Company where he served as President of Boeing Service Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, providing system engineering, facility/system maintenance and operations, spacecraft operations support, and logistics support to the Department of Defense (DOD) and other U.S. government commercial businesses at over 20 locations worldwide.

Covey recently served as co-chairman of the Return to Flight Task Group, a NASA committee established to provide an independent assessment of agency actions, in response to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board recommendations.

Before moving to Boeing Service Company, Covey was vice president of Boeing Houston Operations and was responsible for business development, program management and support for Boeing programs in Houston.

A former astronaut, Covey is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions flown during his distinguished 16-year career with NASA. In December 1993, he commanded the highly acclaimed flight of Endeavour to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. For this mission, his crew received both the National Space Club’s Goddard Trophy and the National Aeronautic Association Collier Trophy. His other space flights included a classified DOD mission in 1990, the first flight of Discovery after the Challenger accident in 1988, and another spacecraft repair mission in 1985. In addition to his flight duties, Covey held key management positions in the Astronaut Office and Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center.

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