{"id":73694,"date":"2018-12-21T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-437937"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:08:52","slug":"kennedy-biographies-stover","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/kennedy-biographies-stover\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Stover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-bio-intro maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-bio-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"hds-bio-intro-container grid-row grid-container grid-container-block padding-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-4 desktop:grid-col-3\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-bio-thumbnail width-10 tablet:width-card desktop:width-card-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Billy Stover is the chief safety and mission assurance officer for NASA's Commercial Crew Program at Kennedy Space Center.\" style=\"transform: scale(1.1); transform-origin: 86% 5%; object-position: 86% 5%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg 2418w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=768,1154 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=682,1024 682w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=1022,1536 1022w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=1363,2048 1363w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=266,400 266w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=399,600 399w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=599,900 599w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=799,1200 799w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ksc-20211130-ph-ked01_0001.jpg?resize=1331,2000 1331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-7 desktop:grid-col-9 grid-row margin-0 padding-0\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1 desktop:margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-60 display-block width-full\">Billy Stover<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg padding-0 margin-0 color-carbon-60\">Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Billy Stover is the Chief Safety Officer (CSO) of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), responsible for coordinating, integrating, and representing Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) technical authority. Previously, he was the deputy CSO for CCP, and prior to that, the office chief for the CCP SMA Office that supports CCP and the CSO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As CSO, Stover works with other directorates, NASA centers, other government organizations, and commercial partners involved with CCP and human space flight to ensure the right safety and quality policies, processes, and products meet necessary requirements and risk levels to safely fly crew to and from low-Earth orbit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stover previously worked in the Space Transportation Planning Office, helping develop the architecture and program structure for the 21st century space launch complex at KSC. His experience includes being the ground systems manager for the Launch Vehicle Processing Directorate responsible for developing launch site\/system architectures and ensuring that the associated ground systems, equipment, and facilities were designed, constructed, and tested to support existing and new program needs for a launch complex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He led an agencywide team in updating and rewriting the NASA standard for ground support equipment design and fabrication for all future programs. He also was the Ares I-X ground systems integrated product team integration manager and deputy responsible for concept, development, and implementation of all necessary modifications to facilities, systems, and hardware to make KSC Ares I-X capable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stover started working at KSC in 1987 as a systems engineer as part of the shuttle processing contract and continued in increasing roles through systems specialist and eventually engineering manager. His expertise is in ground processing, systems engineering, and program and project management. He started working for NASA in May 2004 as a Ground Projects Branch project engineer. He was the KSC Shuttle Processing Directorate lead of the STS-114 Return to Flight design certification review team and was a certified member of the prime space shuttle launch team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stover has received numerous professional awards, including NASA Honor Awards \u2014 the Outstanding Leadership Medal and Space Flight Awareness Award \u2014 Silver Snoopy, Certified Professional Manager, NASA Group Achievement Awards, NASA Public Service Award, NASA Certificate of Commendations, and the Andy Petro Engineering Excellence Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Biography last updated April 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Stover is the Chief Safety Officer (CSO) of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), responsible for coordinating, integrating, and representing Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) technical authority. 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