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Boeing VP of Space Exploration Brewster Shaw Retires, John Elbon to Succeed

Brewster H. Shaw has announced his retirement as vice president and general manager of Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) space exploration division, effective Aug. 26, 2011.

Shaw has led all of Boeing’s civil space programs since 2006 and oversaw the company’s on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station.

He flew three space shuttle missions as an astronaut and led NASA’s space shuttle team in the 1990s. He was pilot of STS-9 in Nov. 1983 and commander of STS-61B in Nov. 1985 and STS-28 in Aug. 1989.

John Elbon, vice president and general manager of Boeing commercial crew programs, will succeed Shaw.

Elbon has served as Boeing program manager for NASA programs including Constellation and ISS.

Previously, he was Boeing’s vice president of system of systems integration for future combat systems.

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