Mark Holdridge:
CLASS OF 1978
Glenelg High SchoolClass of 1978
Glenelg, MD
George Washington UniversityClass of 1993
Washington, DC
University of Maryland - Aerospace EngineeringClass of 1982
College park, MD
Atholton High SchoolClass of 1978
Columbia, MD
Mark's Story
Never left Maryland. Married to wife Brenda and have 4 great children, the oldest now in final year in college ! When not working, enjoy outdoors, travel, flying, camping, hiking. Enjoy taking care of my home in Sykesville MD.
Rcvd. BS in Aerospace Engr from U of MD in 82. MS in Astronautics from George Washington in 93. Have since worked on NASA space programs at Johns Hopkins APL. Fortunate to have been a part of several recent historic NASA missions to the planets and asteroids including serving as the flight operations manager for the NEAR mission, first to orbit and land on an asteroid in 2001. Also served as flight operations manager an...Expand for more
d currently planning orbital operations for NASA's MESSENGER mission on route to orbit Mercury starting in 2011.
Presently serving as the Mission Director for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. All this only a few miles from where I went to elementary and middle school in Clarskville MD ! Clarskville rocks !!
Always enjoy hearing from old friends from Clarksville Middle and Elementary, and fellow Glenelg and Atholton students. Send me a note if you remember me !
By the way......
Pluto IS a planet !!!
My heros are the early astronauts and test pilots. They put their in someone elses hands to help us all explore new frontiers.
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