John Shannon (seated, left) watches the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in March 2008.

Boeing has tapped a former NASA space shuttle manager to take over as program manager for the company’s work on the Space Launch System, the company announced April 23.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...