Bruce E. Reid
Mission Manager
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
Bruce E. Reid is the mission manager for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. He and the Mission Integration Team, or MIT, are tasked by Kennedy Space Center's Launch Services Program with the responsibility of managing the launch services integration and launch vehicle engineering aspects of the GLAST mission.
Reid was raised in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he graduated from John I. Leonard High School in 1981. After serving in the U.S. Army, he earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University, or FAU, in 1992. Bruce joined the NASA team at the Kennedy Space Center in 1990 as a cooperative education student while attending FAU.
Prior to becoming a mission manager, Reid served as the integration engineer on the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms mission, or THEMIS, which successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket on Feb. 17, 2007.
Reid lives in Merritt Island, Fla., where he enjoys spending his free time on the soccer field with his son, Tyler.
January 2008
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