ASTRONAUT JOHN GRUNSFELD APPOINTED STSCI DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Now this is interesting - instead of an astronomer, they are appointing an astronaut.  He has been the captain on at least 2 Hubble servicing missions - I attended one shuttle launch as a guest of his guest. 

"Dr. John M. Grunsfeld has been appointed Deputy Director of the Space
Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., effective
January 4, 2010. He succeeds Dr. Michael Hauser, who stepped down in
October. STScI is the science operations center for NASA’s orbiting
Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope planned to
be launched in 2014."