12 Facts About Robin Henderson

Robin Neely Henderson is the Associate Director, Management, of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama.

Robin Henderson was named to become the center's Acting Director effective August 3,2012, following the retirement of the previous director, Arthur E Goldman, to take a private sector position.

Robin Henderson was business manager for the Upper Stages Project Office from 1990 to 1993, "supervising all business aspects of the Marshall Center's development of expendable rocket stages and associated systems".

From 1993 to 1995, Robin Henderson was the business manager of NASA's Microgravity Projects Office and from 1995 to 1997 she served as that office's deputy project manager.

From 2002 to 2004, Robin Henderson was the chief operating officer of the National Space Science and Technology Center.

Robin Henderson was appointed as associate director of management for the Marshall Space Flight Center in August 2004.

Robin Henderson has received several NASA Group Achievement Awards and Special Service Awards for her "exceptional contributions toward reaching NASA's space mission goals".

In 2004, Robin Henderson served as president of the Marshall Management Association, an organization of MSFC executives and employees that "supports excellence across the work force" and "participates in education initiatives designed to inspire and nurture future generations of engineers, scientists and space explorers".

Robin Henderson is a graduate of Austin High School in Decatur, Alabama.

Robin Henderson enrolled at the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a business major but after working as a co-op student at Martin Marietta, Henderson shifted her course of studies.

Robin Henderson transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1983.

Robin Henderson was named a University of Alabama College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Fellow in 2010.