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Roselee Roberts

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 25, 2020
Roselee Roberts

Roselee Nichols Roberts, Legacy.com
“Mrs. Roselee Nichols Roberts was born on Friday, April 24, 1942 and passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Mrs. Roselee Nichols Roberts was a resident of Maryland at the time of passing.”
Obituary, Marcia Smith, Space Policy Online
“An economist, she worked for the Office of Management and Budget and other federal agencies before joining the staff of then-Congressman (later Senator) Bill Nelson (D-FL) during his tenure as chairman of the House space and aeronautics subcommittee. After eight years on the Hill, she joined McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997. All told she spent 19 years representing those companies’ space and aeronautics businesses to Congress, finally becoming Director of Legislative Affairs for Boeing. She then returned to Capitol Hill, working for Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) when he chaired the space and aeronautics subcommittee. She later joined NASA as a Special Assistant to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and then was Special Assistant to the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate working primarily on the Constellation program to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020.”

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2 responses to “Roselee Roberts”

  1. Alan Ladwig says:
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    A wonderful person and exceptional leader in the space community.

  2. Michael Spencer says:
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    Week after week Keith points us to obituaries, or to achievements, of folks working in or around NASA and/or related agencies (and thank you, Keith; so many, though deserving, will see no recognition beyond knowing they did a good job and served the country).

    These are folks who made a career of public service, folks who very often had appealing non-governmental career paths.

    Why the generalized ‘loathing’ – is the word too strong? – often directed towards governmental employees? Yep. It’s here and elsewhere, sometimes overt, often apparent in tone.

    Governmental employees, sometimes called bureaucrats. More properly, though, they should be called our country’s institutional strength.

    I don’t get it. As a group, public servants are villainous bureaucrats? But one by one we thank them for a job well done? Go figure.