Randy Galloway

Randy Galloway serves as deputy director of NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. He is responsible, with the center director, for coordinating all of NASA’s rocket propulsion testing capabilities, as well as managing Stennis. He began his duties in this position in September 2015.

He began his career as a test engineer for the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., in 1983. In 1986, he transferred to the Marshall Space Flight Center as a reliability engineer on the Space Station Freedom program. In this capacity, he served as the lead reliability engineer for the Work Package 1 segment of the program.

In 1994, he accepted a position with the International Space Station Program Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, serving as the Node Element manager, resident at the manufacturing/test site at Marshall. In this position, he was responsible for day-to-day technical oversight of the design, manufacturing, assembly and test of the Node Element, the first U.S. element of the International Space Station. In 1997, Galloway managed the Pressurized Elements Office for the International Space Station Program at Marshall, and was responsible for all aspects of the node, laboratory and airlock elements of the space station.

In 1998, he accepted a temporary assignment to Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Hardware Integration Office, managing technical aspects of preparing the U.S. laboratory element for multi-element integrated testing and final readiness for flight. He transferred to Kennedy in 2000, assuming leadership of the Engineering Division in the International Space Station/Payloads Processing Directorate. There he was responsible for engineering oversight of space station element testing/processing and providing engineering resources to all space station and payload projects. In 2002, he was appointed chief engineer of the International Space Station/Payload Processing Directorate. From 1998 to 2002, he chaired the International Space Station Material and Engineering Review Board, responsible for review of high-consequence material review actions and last-minute engineering “make operable” changes after hardware acceptance by NASA.

In 2003, he transferred to Stennis, where he led the Propulsion Test Directorate Operations Division, responsible for conducting testing on rocket propulsion components in the E-complex. He accepted a position with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center located at the Langley Research Center, as Stennis’ chief engineer in late 2003. There he was assigned to lead the External Tank Independent Technical Assessment Team during the return to flight effort. He returned to Stennis in 2005 as deputy director, Propulsion Test Directorate. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in October 2006 before his appointment as director of the Engineering and Test Directorate in 2007, which he held until his appointment as Deputy Center Director.

He is a recipient of numerous awards including NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal, the Outstanding Leadership Medal, and Stennis Space Center’s J. Harry Guin Leadership Award.

Galloway received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Mississippi State University in 1983. He is a native of Kemper County, Miss., home county of the late U.S. Sen. John Stennis, for which Stennis Space Center is named.