Workers pressure wash the logo of NASA on the Vehicle Assembly Building before SpaceX will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
- NASA’s human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigned on Tuesday, according to an internal memo seen by agency employees, capping his brief role at the agency overseeing future astronaut launches and landing humans on the moon by 2024. “Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Doug Loverro has resigned from his position effective Monday, May 18,” said the memo sent to employees on Tuesday, adding that Ken Bowersox, NASA’s deputy associate administrator, will take Loverro’s place until a permanent replacement is found.
The resignation comes just a week before the agency is scheduled to launch two astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011.Loverro took the post in October last year to helm NASA’s efforts to return humans to the lunar surface by 2024, a hastened timeline set by the Trump administration in 2019. The reason for his resignation was not immediately clear.
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One would have thought that 60 years after Apollo , humans landing on the moon would be a piece of cake . Makes you wonder .
Maybe not launch next week, you know, for safety reasons.
Umm... that’s a very bad sign 🤬
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ANOTHER VICTIM OF tRUMP’s LACK OF SCIENCE
Oh God.....so sad.
I wish Tedros would resign!
This can’t be good. 🤷🏽♀️
prolly not good sign
Why is that bad or news?
Did Trump want a gold course on the Moon? Imagine the Tee off
I wonder why?
Thats a bad omen
So they still have the mechanical one tho right
It happens.
Ummm... maybe nobody should get on a rocket ship anytime soon. Just sayin’. Not in ‘murica anyway.
People calculate the risk on riding in the space X, compared to RS vehicle. The risk is high. The spaceX firing system is said not thoroughly tested at the appropriate payload. Whatever is, the failure chance is high depending on how the interpretation made against requirements.
NASA is too politicised now. Once a Great institute & now burying under heavy dust of politics.
Well following with the rest of the people who leave the administration, this means those astronauts must be in grave danger by going to space and this guy spoke out about it and got fired because of it.
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