[1] Previously a flight director and Space Shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships[2] prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010.

He also served as deputy chief of the Flight Director Office for Shuttle Operations from 2001 to January 2003.

[4] In this capacity, he was responsible for overall management, integration, and operations of the Space Shuttle Program.

His January 29, 2010 blog entry is a Requiem for the NASA Space Shuttle program in which he correctly predicted what it would take to revive the US space exploration program: A brilliant American businessman [who] devoted his vast wealth to building a rocket.

Think Elon Musk but with Bill Gate’s fortune and Donald Trump’s ethics.