MSU grad to lead Stennis Space Center

Dr. Richard J. Gilbrech, a Bachelor of Science graduate from Mississippi State University, is the new director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Gilbrech comes to the top post after serving as deputy director. It's his second go-round as director at Stennis having begun the first in 2006. The MSU graduate began his NASA career in 1991 at Stennis in the area of propulsion test technology. Source: NASA, Sept. 25, 2012.