Dr. Bill Barry became NASA's sixth Chief Historian in September 2010. He began work at NASA in 2001 after retiring from a 22-year career in the US Air Force. Initially, he worked in NASA's international relations office, and then served as the NASA European Representative at the United States Embassy in Paris from 2007-2010, before being appointed Chief Historian. A graduate, with honors, of the United States Air Force Academy (1979), he also holds a Masters Degree from Stanford University (1987) and a Doctorate from Oxford University (1996). His doctoral dissertation, "The Missile Design Bureaux and Soviet Manned Space Policy 1953-1970" won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics History Manuscript Award in 2000.