NASA任命斯蒂芬·卡什出任马歇尔太空飞行中心主任 10月19日上任
华盛顿——美国国家航空航天局（NASA）10月16日宣布，署长贾里德·艾萨克曼（Jared Isaacman）已任命斯蒂芬·卡什（Stephen Cash）为阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔马歇尔太空飞行中心主任，10月19日（周一）生效。卡什是资深工程师与航天业管理者，此次是回到他四十多年前开启职业生涯的地方任职。
马歇尔中心是NASA最大的外场中心之一，卡什上任后将领导5,000多名公务员与承包商员工，负责推进系统、空间系统、科学研究与技术开发等业务。该中心在「阿尔忒弥斯」探月计划中承担关键角色，包括太空发射系统（SLS）火箭研制与载人着陆系统计划管理，并推进核动力与核推进技术。艾萨克曼在宣布任命时称卡什是「马歇尔的传奇人物」，熟悉硬件与人员、曾在载人航天任务成败攸关的岗位上作过决策；他同时感谢蕾·安·迈耶（Rae Ann Meyer）在过渡期代理主任的工作。迈耶自2025年9月起代理主任，卡什上任后她将回到副主任岗位。
卡什1982年在马歇尔中心加入NASA，在该机构工作34年，曾任航天飞机推进办公室经理、负责支撑航天飞机最后阶段任务的推进系统，2011年至2016年退休前任中心安全与任务保障局局长。离开NASA后他曾在航天企业Axient任高级太空系统副总裁，2024年入选阿拉巴马工程名人堂。卡什在任命宣布中表示，回到马歇尔中心是「深感荣幸」之事。马歇尔中心成立于1960年，曾为阿波罗计划研制土星系列火箭。
NASA Names Stephen Cash Director of Marshall Space Flight Center, Effective Oct. 19
WASHINGTON — NASA announced on Oct. 16 that Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran engineer and aerospace executive, returns to lead the center where he began his career more than four decades ago.
As director, Cash will oversee one of NASA's largest field centers, with a workforce of more than 5,000 civil service and contractor employees working across propulsion, space systems, scientific research and technology development. Marshall plays a central role in the Artemis lunar program, including development of the Space Launch System rocket and management of the Human Landing System Program, and is advancing nuclear power and propulsion technologies. In announcing the appointment, Isaacman called Cash a Marshall legend who knows the hardware and the people and has made decisions with human spaceflight on the line, and he thanked Rae Ann Meyer for leading the center during the transition. Meyer has served as acting director since September 2025 and will return to her role as deputy center director.
Cash joined NASA at Marshall in 1982 and spent 34 years with the agency, including as manager of the Space Shuttle Propulsion Office through the shuttle program's final missions and, from 2011 until his retirement in 2016, as director of the center's Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate. After leaving NASA he served as a vice president for advanced space systems at the aerospace firm Axient, and in 2024 he was inducted into the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. Established in 1960, Marshall developed the Saturn rockets that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon.
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图片来源：图：NASA署长艾萨克曼2026年1月在马歇尔太空飞行中心与员工问答（资料图）。图片来源：NASA／John Kraus 摄，公共领域。Photo: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks with employees during a visit to Marshall Space Flight Center in January 2026 (file photo). Credit: NASA / John Kraus, public domain.
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