Director
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gallagher, who had been serving as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s associate director for Strategic Integration, was selected by Caltech to lead the federally funded research and development center upon the retirement of Laurie Leshin, as of June 1. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. Gallagher will draw on his deep experience at JPL to lead the lab into the future. He arrived at JPL 36 years ago and went on to hold numerous leadership positions. Along with having served as the director and deputy director for Astronomy, Physics, and Space Technology, he was manager of JPL’s Advanced Optical Systems Program Office. An electrical engineer, Gallagher also managed the Spitzer Space Telescope and led the team that built and tested the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2.
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