{"id":15095,"date":"2026-05-09T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/brian-hughes-is-coming-back-to-nasa-nasa-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:40:42","slug":"brian-hughes-is-coming-back-to-nasa-nasa-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/brian-hughes-is-coming-back-to-nasa-nasa-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hughes Is Coming Back To NASA &#8211; NASA Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keith\u2019s 8:54 am EDT  note<\/strong>: Former NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes is coming back &#8211; to NASA KSC as Senior Director of Launch Operations based at KSC and will report to NASA HQ with direct responsibilities KSC and Wallops. <strong>Update<\/strong> 10:23 am EDT: here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-names-brian-hughes-to-launch-operations-role\/\"><strong>the official release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member \ud83d\udd96\ud83c\udffb<br \/>How can you be a &#8216;Senior Director of Launch Operations&#8217;, when you&#8217;ve never directed a launch?<br \/>You must be <a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fnasawatch.com%2Fpersonnel-news%2Fbrian-hughes-is-coming-back-to-nasa%2F\">logged in<\/a> to post a comment.<br \/>2026 \u00a9 Reston Communications. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTE1sQzV1WFVsal9hS3lDZ3Bua2VvNy04TUwwenBxR1Y0eFBWMEtwdVB3SThIaGk1LS1EdkpHNVB6MV9WQk04ZEpMSU9HSDhvTHB3aWxGVW1wOWJ5RmhQR01SWVpwR0tkdmtTNGxMMm05MnZIdU00MzRBVGpqZ05Pdw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith\u2019s 8:54 am EDT note: Former NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes is coming back &#8211; to NASA KSC as Senior Director of Launch Operations based at KSC and will report to NASA HQ with direct responsibilities KSC and Wallops. Update 10:23 am EDT: here is the official release Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}