NASA Representatives to Australia

A number of senior NASA officials were stationed in Australia to represent NASA at various times.

The plan is to add a page for as many of these people as possible.

I’d be very glad of any help in filling in the details. Contact.

NASA Senior Scientific Representatives to Australia

Edwin P. Hartman – May 1960 – June 1964 (based in Melbourne)

Ray W. Hooker – July 1964 – 1966 (based in Melbourne)

Willson H. Hunter – 1966 – 1979 (based in Canberra, and all the following also in Canberra)

H. William Wood – 1979 – late 1981(?)

Joe Kerwin – 1982 – 1983

Mike Stevens – at least 1984

Charlie Taylor – acting in 1989

Richard Colonna – 1990 – 1992

G. Ted Ankrum – c 1993.

Charlie Taylor (second time) - 19?? –????

Miriam Baltuck - ???? – ~2004

Neal Newman - ~2004 – June 2006.

JPL Representatives to Australia

Richard J. (Dick) Fahnestock – 1963? – ???? (based in Adelaide and then Canberra when the Space Office moved to Canberra)

Mel Glenn (in Canberra?) – at least partly concurrent with Dick Fahnestock

Walter E. (Walt) Larkin – January 1969 – January 1973 (Based in Canberra)

Phillip A. (Phil) Tardani – 1973 – ????

Douglas J. Mudgway – 1980 – 1981? (The Canberra Times, page 1, 14 November 1980, mentions that he is in Canberra ‘for two years’, though that may have been extended.)

Walt Larkin (second time) – 1986 – 1987.

NASA Goddard Representatives to Australia

Don W. Anderson – 1961? - 1964? (He attended the Opening ceremony at Carnarvon on 25 June 1964. By 1967, he was with the Manned Flight Operations Division.)

Christos L. Maskaleris – 1964? – early 1967. (Apparently based at WRE in Salisbury, Adelaide, South Australia.)

John F. South – January 1967 – 1968 (Note: After Australia he went on to a number of StaDir posts. In 1983 he was the Goddard Rep at the Santiago STDN station and was the NASA representative in Spain just before retiring in the 1990s.)

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