HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Marshall Space Flight Center Director Patrick Scheuermann will deliver the spring commencement address at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The commencement will be May 4 at 10 a.m. at Propst Arena in downtown Huntsville's Von Braun Center. <\/p>\n
UAH expects to award 860 diplomas - 630 bachelor's degrees, 194 master's degrees and 24 doctoral degrees. Scheuermann will receive an honorary doctorate from UAH during the ceremony. <\/p>\n
Scheuermann came to Huntsville in September 2012 to take over what is one of NASA's top field centers. Marshall has 6,000 government and contractor support workers and a budget of more than $2 billion. It is leading development of the Space Launch System, NASA's new heavy-lift rocket for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. <\/p>\n
Before coming to Marshall, Scheuermann headed NASA's engine-testing Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of the University of New Orleans. Scheuermann and his wife, the former Sarah Melissa Lee of Pearl River County, Miss., have a son and daughter, Chandler and Christina.<\/p>\n
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