USRA Selects Mission Director

In Columbia, Md., the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has appointed Erick Young as the science mission operations director for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft fitted with a 2.5-m infrared telescope. Currently a member of the science oversight committee for the Wide Field Camera 3, slated for installation on the Hubble Space Telescope, he was also responsible for the development of the Spitzer Space Telescope Multiband Imaging Photometer detector array.