Virginia Air & Space Science Center picks Melvin Ferebee as Interim President

The Virginia Air & Space Science Center named Melvin J. Ferebee Jr., a long time NASA Langley Research Center engineer, as its Interim President and CEO on Tuesday. The announcement comes a little more than a week after the center’s previous director, Jeffery Smith Ed.D, was picked by Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger to be Virginia’s Secretary of Education. Ferebee will start in his new role on February 9 and will serve until the center’s board selects a permanent director…