Leland Melvin

• Nasa Selects Astronaut Leland D. Melvin to Lead Office of Education

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Tuesday the selection of Leland D. Melvin as the agency's new associate administrator for education, effective immediately. He succeeds James L. Stofan, who had served in an acting capacity since the spring. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• October 12, 2010

• Khushro Ghandi, Andrew Rotstein, Richard Magraw, Jacqueline Cotton, Matthew Moriarty, Elizabeth Moriarty, Stuart Bernsen, Randolph Wedler and Barbara Gettel, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Police Department of the City of Detroit, Philip Tannian, Dale Tiderington, Garries Terrell, Melvin Gamblin, Robert Persyn, Donald Mckinnon, Leland Blaim, Vernon Higgins, Philip Mercado, Edward Ball, John Minogue, Gerald Fayed, Clarence Kelley, William Saxbe and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants-Appellees., 747 F.2d 338 (6th Cir. 1985)

Mayer Morganroth, Southfield, Mich., Robert Rossi (argued), Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs-appellants. Peter L. Letsmann, Police Headquarters, William...

• Federal Circuits

• Technet and Leading Innovators Launch New Nonprofit to Better Leverage Technology to Address America's Critical Challenges

ConvergeUS' Founding Board Includes Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone, TechNet's Rey Ramsey, Cisco's Tae Yoo, Kaboom! CEO Darrell Hammond, Entrepreneur Kim Polese and Others WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TechNet, the bipartisan network of CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today announced the creation of a new nonprofit called ConvergeUS, whose mission is to leverage the collective power of the technology sector to accelerate social innovation in collaboration with nonprofit organizations, government entities, academic institutions and the private sector. TechNet's President and CEO Rey Ramsey and Twitter Co-Founder and Creative Director Biz Stone are launching the nonprofit at a gathering today in Washington, DC along with Federal Communications ...

• U.S. Newswire
• February 23, 2011

• Nasa Astronaut/Athletes/Robot to Honor Black History in Hampton

HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 26, 2011/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronaut and former NASA Langley Research Center engineer Leland Melvin will celebrate Black History Month at Hampton's Virginia Air & Space Center, Feb. 12, along with two other athletes, members of an historic air squadron and a robot. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• January 26, 2011

• Nasa's Looking to Recruit a Few Good Astronauts

It's not something that's going to last forever, you know - 10,000 years from now you're not going to go visit the International Space Station, the first great structure," said Alvin Drew, who just returned from his first shuttle flight in August. "But what we'll get from it is the ability to build large complex structures in space for other things. "The opportunity for this class to participate in exploration is something that hasn't been at NASA since the Apollo program," Steve Lindsey, chief of the astronaut office, said. "We're actually entering a completely new phase of exploration. While we're in the low Earth orbit, long-duration business, we'll also be transitioning to the interplanetary phase, starting with the moon. I, personalty, would love to be coming in as a new astronau...

...Leland Melvin, who will be taking his first flight into s...

• Chicago Defender
• August 21, 2009

• Shuttle Astronaut Leland Melvin Comes Home to Nasa Langley

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• U.S. Newswire
• April 29, 2008

• Space Race ; Navigating Selection Process Is Merely the Start for Astronauts

Astronaut Leland D. Melvin has been preparing to go to space for eight years. Since starting basic training in August 1998, he has spent time in Russia with cosmonauts and worked at NASA headquarters in Southwest selecting the current group of educator-astronauts.

• The Washington Times
• July 13, 2006

• Deaths

Leland Netherton MELVIN -- A. Leland Netherton was born Feb. 25, 1918, at Melvin, the son of Arthur and Emily Gedelman Netherton and died Wednesday (June 14, 2006) in Hot Springs, Ark.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• July 12, 2006

• Florida Native Dr. Robert McMahan, President of Kettering University, Returns to State to Address Need for More Science and Engineering Talent.

... president of FIRST Robotics, and Astronaut Leland Melvin, who is now NASA-Associate Administrator fo...

• Business Wire
• October 24, 2011

• Curveballs On the Moon

By Mike Doyle Correspondent

...NASA astronaut Leland Melvin was a star college football player at Richm...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• February 21, 2011